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Major League baseball was founded
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The first proffesional team the cincinnati red stockings were founded
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Baseball"s first big boom, games dominated by pithching performances
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Basweball was the 1st sport to accept African Americans
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President Roosevelt responds "I honestly feel that it would be best for the country to keep baseball going. There will be fewer people unemployed and everybody will work longer hours and harder than ever before. And that means that they ought to have a chance for recreation and for taking their minds off their work even more than before."[25]
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Baseball expanded across the USA to create a bigger fanbase and market
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Rules change to give hitters an advantage
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Stadiums got bigger and better to holds more fans and make them more desirable to got to
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Baseball players started scoring more runs creating a bigger interest in the sport
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MLB got their own tv network
