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Baseball's golden age
Baseball's golden age begins. Beginning of well built stadiums and professional teams. -
Baseball's coming of age
Professional baseball began. It became the "National Pastime." Abner Doubleday became noticed as the inventer of baseball in Cooperstown, New York, in the year 1839 and baseball took official form in 1907. At this time, fields resembled the nations agrarian past. -
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Ty Cobb
Ty Cobb was the great player of his time. He won the batting title 9 times and had a batting average of .367. -
Age of the Pitcher
Also known as the "dead ball era" the age of the pitcher was experienced from 1900-1920. In 1900 the dimensions of home plate was changed from being 12 inches wide to 17 inches wide greatly helping pitchers. Also added in this time was the rule that counted the first two foul balls as strikes. -
The Black Sox Scandal
The 1919 World Series was apparently fixed. Players from the White Sox intentionaly lost the World Series to make their money back from the gambling debts they had. 8 of the players were then banned for life including "Shoeless" Joe Jackson. -
Age of team Dynasties
The draft was put in place to keep wealthier teams from dominating every year. The draft of promising minor leaguers gave each club equal access to new player talent. -
In the Great Depression and World War II
Attendence was beginning to dwindle so the major leagues added in an annual all star game between the best players of each league. In 1936 baseball also added a Hall Of Fame in Cooperstown. Night baseball was also introduced during this time. -
Black Baseball
Black baseball was never central to the black community as baseball was to the white community.
