Baseball

1870's in America

By abbyvaughn238

  • The first professional baseball association

    The first professional baseball association
    The first professional baseball association, the National Association of Proffesional Baseball Players, is organized.

  • Railroads make the American buffalo almost extinct.

    Railroads make the American buffalo almost extinct.
    The rapid settleent of the West, after railroads built there, helps make the American buffalo almost extinct.

  • First public zoo

    First public zoo
    America gets its first public zoo, the Philadelphia Zoological Gardens.

  • Alexander Graham Bell

    Alexander Graham Bell
    Alexnder Graham Bel invents the telephone.

  • Thomas Edison invents electric light.

    Thomas Edison invents electric light.
    Thomas Edison invents the first practical incandescent electric light at Menlo Park, New Jersey.