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Abner Doubleday is credited with inventing baseball in Cooperstown, New York.
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Alexander Joy Cartwright develops the rules of baseball.
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The first official game of baseball is played between the Knickerbockers and a group of cricket players.
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The National League is established, with William Hulbert as president.
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Moses Fleetwood Walker becomes the first African-American player in the Major Leagues.
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Cy Young takes the mound in the Major Leagues for the first time.
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The Dead Ball Era is generally considered to have lasted from the turn of the century into the beginning of the roaring '20s. As the name suggests the game used a "dead" or almost soft ball to play its game. The same ball was usually used for the entire game.
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The American League is created.
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The Boston Pilgrims and the Pittsburgh Pirates play the first World Series.
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Ty Cobb plays his first Major League game.
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Fenway Park opens The first players' strike in Major League Baseball occurs.
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America enters WW1. Many major leaguers fight in the war. 1 year later the star spangled banner is sung at a major leugue baseball game.
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In the most famous scandal in baseball history eight players from the Chicago White Sox, including "shoeless" joe jackson, are accused of throwing the World Series against the Cincinnati Reds.
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Babe Ruth is sold to the New York Yankees.
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Lou Gehrig replaces Wally Pipp in the Yankee lineup.
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Major League Baseball's first night game is played.
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The Baseball Hall of Fame inducts its first five players.
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Lou Gehrig takes himself out of the lineup after 2,130 consecutive games. "Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I got. Yet today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth. I have been to ballparks for seventeen years and I have never received anything but kindness and encouragement from you fans."
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Pearl Harbor is bombed by Japan and the U.S. enters World War II.
340 Major League players serve in World War II.
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World War II ends. Jackie Robinson makes his Major League debut.
An American baseball player who became the first black Major League Baseball player of the modern era. Robinson broke the baseball color line when he debuted with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947. As the first black man to play in the major leagues since the 1880s, he was instrumental in bringing an end to racial segregation in professional baseball, which had relegated black players to the Negro leagues for six decades. -
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Joe DiMaggio announces his retirement.
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The New York Giants and the Brooklyn Dodgers announce their moves to California.
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Casey Stengel becomes manager of the expansion New York Mets.
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CBS buys the Yankees.
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The New York Mets win the World Series against the Baltimore Orieles.
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Roberto Clemente dies in an airplane crash. Jackie Robinson dies.
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George Stienbrenner buys the New York Yankees.
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Hank Aaron breaks Babe Ruth's career home run record of 714 home runs.
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Bill Buckner makes a game-ending error in the World Series.
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Pete Rose is banned from baseball for betting on the game.
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the longest and costliest strike in baseball history begins on August 12, and lasts until the following spring. The next year the Atlants braves would go on to win the world series.
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Cal Ripken breaks Lou Gehrig's streak with his 2,131st consecutive game.
