Baseball teams

History of Baseball

  • Game of Rounders invented - ancestor of baseball

    Game of Rounders invented - ancestor of baseball

    rounders, old English game that never became a seriously competitive sport, although it is probably an ancestor of baseball.
  • Major League Baseball Started

    Major League Baseball Started

    For professional baseball's founding year, Major League Baseball (professional baseball's current official organization) uses 1869 — the year the first professional team,[11] the Cincinnati Red Stockings, was established
  • National league is created

    National league is created

    The national league was created in 1876 the earliest members were the cincinati red stockings
  • First World Series (Boston Americans vs.Pittsburgh Pirates

    First World Series (Boston Americans vs.Pittsburgh Pirates

    Boston Americans (5) vs Pittsburgh Pirates (3)
  • American league is created

    American league is created

    The american league was created in 1903
  • Babe Ruth is drafted

    Babe Ruth is drafted

    Babe ruth wsa drafted on this day to the Boston Red sox where he wloul dmake his major league debut
  • Black Sox scandal

    Black Sox scandal

    In 1919 Eight players Concoted a scheme to throw the world series and make alot of money off Betting. They all played for the white sox but bet on the reds. They got a bunch of people to bet on the Reds and then they threw the world series they were not caught until the following year
  • Yankees First World Series

    Yankees First World Series

    The yankees won thier first world series four games to two against the New York Giants.
  • First ever all star game

    First ever all star game

    On july sixth 1933 Major league baseball played their first ever all star game
  • First ever hall of fame class

    First ever hall of fame class

    In 1936 the first ever hall of fame class was inducted into the hall of fame.
  • First ever Major league baseball draft

    First ever Major league baseball draft

    This year was the first time ever that someone was drafted in major league baseball.
  • First designated hitter in baseball

    First designated hitter in baseball

    On this date the first designated hitter was used in a baseball game
  • Year major league baseball expanded to thirty teams

    Year major league baseball expanded to thirty teams

    Major league Baseball expands to thirty teams adding the Tampa bay Rays and the Arizona Diamondbacks
  • Instant replay

    Instant replay

    Instant replay was added to the game