Editing American League (section)

===Expansion, renaming, and relocation summary===
{{see also|Major League Baseball relocation of 1950s–1960s}}
*1902: Original [[Milwaukee Brewers (1894–1901)|Milwaukee Brewers]] moved to St. Louis, renamed [[St. Louis Browns]]
*1902: [[Cleveland Guardians|Cleveland Bluebirds/Blues]] players attempted to adopt the nickname [[Cleveland Guardians|Cleveland Bronchos]], which failed to catch on
*1903: [[New York Yankees|New York Highlanders]] replaced original Baltimore Orioles; dubbed "Highlanders" by press after their field, [[Hilltop Park]], and "Yankees" as an alternate form of "Americans"
*1903: [[Chicago White Sox|Chicago White Stockings]] officially renamed [[Chicago White Sox]]
*1903: [[Cleveland Guardians|Cleveland Blues/Bronchos]] renamed [[Cleveland Naps]] via newspaper poll, after star [[Nap Lajoie]]
*1905: [[Washington Senators (1901–1960)|Washington Senators]] renamed [[Washington Senators (1901–1960)|Washington Nationals]]; Senators name continued to be used by media
*1908: [[Boston Red Sox|Boston Americans]] (informal nickname) formally named [[Boston Red Sox]]
*1913: [[New York Yankees|New York Highlanders]] nickname dropped in favor of already-established alternative, [[New York Yankees]]
*1915: [[Cleveland Guardians|Cleveland Naps]] renamed [[Cleveland Guardians|Cleveland Indians]]
*1954: [[St. Louis Browns]] move to Baltimore, renamed [[Baltimore Orioles]]
*1955: [[Philadelphia Athletics]] move to Kansas City
*1957: [[Washington Senators (1901–1960)|Washington Nationals/Senators]] formally renamed [[Washington Senators (1901–1960)|Washington Senators]]
*1961: [[Washington Senators (1901–1960)|Washington Senators]] move to Minneapolis-St. Paul, renamed [[Minnesota Twins]]
*1961: [[Los Angeles Angels]] and ''new'' [[Washington Senators (1961–1971)|Washington Senators]] enfranchised.
*1965: [[Los Angeles Angels]] renamed [[Los Angeles Angels|California Angels]] in late-season on September 2, 1965. For the following season, the Angels moved within the Los Angeles metropolitan area from the city of Los Angeles to the [[Orange County, California|Orange County]] suburb of Anaheim.
*1968: [[Kansas City Athletics]] move to Oakland
*1969: [[Kansas City Royals]] and [[Seattle Pilots]] enfranchised.
*1970: [[Seattle Pilots]] move to Milwaukee, renamed [[Milwaukee Brewers]]. (Four years earlier, in 1966, the National League's Milwaukee Braves had moved to Atlanta.)
*1972: [[Washington Senators (1961–1971)|Washington Senators]] move to the [[Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex]], renamed [[Texas Rangers (baseball)|Texas Rangers]]
*1973: [[Oakland Athletics]] renamed [[Oakland Athletics|Oakland A's]]
*1977: [[Seattle Mariners]] and [[Toronto Blue Jays]] enfranchised
*1980: [[Oakland Athletics|Oakland A's]] officially renamed [[Oakland Athletics]]
*1997: [[Los Angeles Angels|California Angels]] renamed [[Los Angeles Angels|Anaheim Angels]]. The change came more than 30 years after the team's move to Anaheim.
*1998: [[Tampa Bay Rays|Tampa Bay Devil Rays]], representing Tampa-St. Petersburg, enfranchised
*1998: [[Milwaukee Brewers]] transfer from the American League to the National League. (See above.)
*2005: [[Los Angeles Angels|Anaheim Angels]] renamed [[Los Angeles Angels|Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim]]
*2008: [[Tampa Bay Rays|Tampa Bay Devil Rays]] renamed [[Tampa Bay Rays]]
*2013: [[Houston Astros]] moved from the National League.
*2016: [[Los Angeles Angels|Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim]] renamed [[Los Angeles Angels]]
*2022: [[Cleveland Guardians|Cleveland Indians]] renamed [[Cleveland Guardians]]
*2025: [[Oakland Athletics]] renamed [[A's|Athletics]] following temporary relocation to [[West Sacramento, California]]