In 1960, an ownership group led by the "Singing Cowboy," Gene Autry was awarded the American League franchise for Los Angeles. Autry is most familiar to today's generation through the Christmas songs he recorded including "Santa Claus is Coming to Town," "Here Comes Santa Claus," "Frosty the Snowman" and his biggest hit, "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer." The Angels of course started play in 1961 as the Los Angeles Angels, became the California Angels in 1965, then the Anaheim Angels in 1997 and in an apparent attempt to please everyone settled on The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim (at least for the time being).

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