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history of baseball start-2000
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Baseball is invented
Abner Doubleday is credited with inventing baseball in Cooperstown, New York. -
Rules of baseball are created
Alexander Joy Cartwright develops the rules of baseball. -
First Game
The first official game of baseball is played between the Knickerbockers and a group of cricket players. -
National league
The National League is established, with William Hulbert as president. -
first african american baseball player
Moses Fleetwood Walker becomes the first African-American player in the Major Leagues. -
Cy young
Cy Young takes the mound in the Major Leagues for the first time. -
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Dead ball era
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. -
American leugue
The American League is created. -
First World series
The Boston Pilgrims and the Pittsburgh Pirates play the first World Series. -
Ty Cobb
Ty Cobb plays his first Major League game. -
Fenway
Fenway Park opens The first players' strike in Major League Baseball occurs. -
Nation in war
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. -
Eight Men Out
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. -
The great bambino
Babe Ruth is sold to the New York Yankees. -
Lou Gehrig
Lou Gehrig replaces Wally Pipp in the Yankee lineup. -
first night game
Major League Baseball's first night game is played. -
Hall of fame
The Baseball Hall of Fame inducts its first five players. -
Iron Horse
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." -
WW2
Pearl Harbor is bombed by Japan and the U.S. enters World War II.
340 Major League players serve in World War II.
The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League is formed. -
Jackie Robinson
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. -
First televised world series
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Joe DiMaggio
Joe DiMaggio announces his retirement. -
The move
The New York Giants and the Brooklyn Dodgers announce their moves to California. -
The New York Mets
Casey Stengel becomes manager of the expansion New York Mets. -
Purchase of the Yankees
CBS buys the Yankees. -
1969 world series
The New York Mets win the World Series against the Baltimore Orieles. -
Tragedy
Roberto Clemente dies in an airplane crash. Jackie Robinson dies. -
Yankees new owner
George Stienbrenner buys the New York Yankees. -
New home run king
Hank Aaron breaks Babe Ruth's career home run record of 714 home runs. -
Bill buckner
Bill Buckner makes a game-ending error in the World Series. -
Pete rose
Pete Rose is banned from baseball for betting on the game. -
the year without a world series
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. -
Cal Ripken Jr.
Cal Ripken breaks Lou Gehrig's streak with his 2,131st consecutive game.
