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The rules of baseball were created by a man named, Abner Doubleday.
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The National League was founded in 1876.
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The rival, American League, was created in 1901.
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The first World Series was played in 1903, which was a tournament that had the best teams play each other and for the championship game, a team from the American League and the National League would play each other. The Boston Red Sox were the first team to win a World Series.
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The Black Sox Scandal is when eight players from the White Sox were caught recieving money from gamblers to throw the World Series so the gamblers could make money. The players were banned from the game for life.
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At the end of the war, baseball attendance exploded with fans and soldiers.
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Shortly after soldiers were coming home for the war, there was a prohibition against "blacks" from playing in the MLB, so a negro league was started. This "rule" was first passed by the player Jackie Robinson of the LA Dodgers.
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During the beginning of television, a lot of owners of teams were worried that television would greatly decrease attendance in the stadiums because people could just watch the game for free at there house.
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Baseball in the early 1960's became a phenomenal business and became very popular, raising baseball's attendance by almost %60.
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The first international team was created in 1969, a team known as the Montreal Expos.
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Eight years after the first international team was created, the Toronto Blue Jays joined the MLB, the second international team in the league.
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Baseball arrived in the Olympics in 1992, but it did not last long because it was cut off around the year of 2000.
