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knickerbocker rule
The Knickerbocker Rules, or the New York Game, established modern baseball’s rules. -
National Association of Base Ball Players Founded
Association of amateur clubs, primarily from the New York City area , organized. -
The Cincinnati Red Stockings
Baseball’s first all–professional team, the Red Stockings, founded. -
First Professional League
Though plagued by financially weak franchises and players jumping from team to team, baseball’s first professional league, the National Association, operated for five seasons -
American Association
New six team major league began its ten year run with teams playing in cities without a National League club -
American Association Folds
Financially weakened by long years of competition with the National League, the American Association disbanded -
American League
Ban Johnson renamed his Western League the American League and declared it a major league to challenge the twenty five year old National League. -
First World Series
Boston defeated Pittsburgh in the first postseason meeting between the champions of the American and National Leagues. -
President Plays Ball
President Wilson became the First president to throw the first pitch in a world series -
Baseball's First Commissioner
Following the Black Sox Scandal of 1919, the National and American Leagues agreed to appoint one person, Kenesaw Mountain Landis, to oversee organized baseball. -
It's Live!
Baseball is broadcast on radio for the first time. -
Babe Does it Again
Babe ruth hits his 500th career homerun -
The Stars Come Out to Play
Major League Baseball's first All-Star game is played. -
Turn On The Lights
Major League Baseball's first night game is played. -
56 In A Row
Joe DiMaggio hits safely in 56 consecutive games -
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Jackie Robinson makes his Major League debut. -
World Series Is Live
First televised World Series -
Baseball Loses A Great One
Babe Ruth dies of nasopharyngeal carcinoma -
61!
Roger Marris passes Babe Ruths 60 homerun mark by hitting 61 -
Colt 45's
The league expands giving Houston Texas a basball team called the Houston Colt 45's. Today the are called the Houston Astros -
You're On The Clock
marked the beginning of the MLB First-Year Player Draft -
First Domed Stadium
he First Dome Stadium Opend to Public in Houston,Texas called the Astrodome it was the First Dome Stadium In Major League Baseball -
The DH Is Born
The designated hitter rule is established -
The Roof Moves
The Toronto Blue Jays played in their new stadium witch came with an Rectractable roof -
No Baseball
The year without a World Series: the longest and costliest strike in baseball history begins on August 12, and lasts until the following spring -
MLB Goes To Japan
For the first time, the Major League baseball season opens in Tokyo, Japan (Chicago Cubs vs. New York Mets) -
Instant Replay
Instant replay was used for fair (home run) or foul, whether the ball actually left the playing field, and whether the ball was subject to spectator interference -
Old Yankee Stadium
Following the 2008 season old yankee stadium was closed and a new one was being bulit and opened the next season -
A.L West
The Houston Astros move to the american league west -
Worst of The Worst
The Houston Astros are the first team in history to have the worst record in the league three years in a row
