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Expansion Teams Mystery Cache

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NoCache-NoCredit: Stopped by before the All-Star break to check on this. I struck out.
Time to say, You're Out!

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Difficulty:
3 out of 5
Terrain:
2.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:


The cache is not at the posted coordinates. You must solve the puzzle in order to find the final, which is located within 1.5 miles of the coordinates above.

Time to learn a bit of baseball history. There are currently 30 MLB teams located all over the country, but it wasn't always this way. At the turn of the 20th Century, there were only 16 teams and all of them were east of the Mississippi. So how did we get where we are today? Expansion teams!! By definition MLB expansion teams are those who were added to the rolls after 1960. How much do you know about expansion teams?

The final can be found here: N 41 4A.BCD W086 1E.FGH

A = ones digit of the first year expansion teams were added.
B = tens digit of the year the Mariners became a team.
C = ones digit of the year the first international franchise was added...careful, this one might be a trick question for some...
D = number of the teams added within the last 13 years that have won the World Series.

E = number of teams added in 1977 minus the number of teams added in 1993.
F = Y minus X, where XY = the total number of expansion teams added since 1960.
G = the most teams added in a single year.
H = ones digit of the year the 2008 World Series runner up was added as an expansion team.

You are looking for a small camo'd lok 'n lok that is not winter friendly.

Congrats to The Aardvarks on FTF, and of course NC-NC on FTS.

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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

[hide]: gjva gerr.

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)