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Abner Doubleday is credited with creating baseball in Cooperstown, New York
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Alexander Joy Cartwright develops the rules of baseball
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The first official game of baseball is played between a group of cricket players and the knickerbockers
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California enters the union
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The Civil war begins
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The first women's baseball team is started by a group from Vassar college
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Candy Cummings throws the first curveball in baseball
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An all-professional team, the Cincinnati red stockings, takes the field for the first time
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The national league is created with William Hulbert as president
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Custer is defeated at Little Bighorn
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Four players are banned from baseball for accepting bribes
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The American Baseball Association, also known the Beer and Whiskey league, is created
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The Brooklyn Bridge opens
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Moses Fleetwood Walker becomes the first African American player in the major leagues
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Pete browning uses the first Louisville slugger bat
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The player's league is created
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Cy young takes the mound in the major leagues for the first time
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Ellis island opens as an immigration station
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The Spanish-American war begins
