Any franchise shift requires league approval, but league officials said today that they would work with the team to help it find a new home.

We still don't know if the deconstruction of the champion Yankees includes a franchise shift (swap for the Dodgers?)

He lost a reelection campaign in 1961 to Sam Yorty, partly due to having to explain the expenses incurred by the Dodgers' franchise shift.

In Europe and Latin America, the idea of franchise shifts has never taken hold.

Most athletes do not feel the pain of franchise shifts, except for the personal annoyance of moving.

An owner's desire to move could face a roadblock even if the commissioner were to approve the franchise shift.

As franchise shifts go, this is no biggie.

There is a big cost to these franchise shifts.

There are franchise shifts, lawsuits and an owner's revolt in Dallas.

The second incarnation was a very stable lineup, with only one franchise shift (La Crosse before the war, Wausau after).