Major League Baseball Needs a Facelift

Is anyone as sick of the grumpy old Miami Dolphins claiming they don't get enough credit for their perfect season as I am?  I turned 17 in 1972, and baseball was the national pastime. In 1972 the Oakland A's won the first of three straight championships.  They beat the Cincinnati Reds in a seven-game World Series where six of the seven games were won by one run. The A's made the series by beating the Detroit Tigers three games to two.  The same was true of the Reds, who beat the defending champion Pittsburgh Pirates with the winning run scored on a wild pitch. 1972 was also the year of the first of eight all too frequent work stoppages that have eroded a great deal of the sport's popularity.  Baseball has also fallen into a stubbornness to change, so I submit the following.   1. Balance the schedule Embrace interleague play or get rid of it.  First of all (horror of horror!), this means a team moving to the American League. With six five-team ... (link)