History of Sports

By dishmansally

  • 1839

    1839
    1st baseball game played in America

  • 1857

    1857
    Baseball decides 9 innings makes an official game, not 9 runs
    -Date isn't correct but year is

  • 1862

    Union Grounds, Brooklyn, 1st baseball enclosure opens

  • 1876

    National league forms

  • 1887

    1st minor league baseball association organizes in Pittsburgh

  • 1903

    First World Series

  • 1922

    U.S. Supreme Court rules organized baseball is a sport and not a business and thus not subject to antitrust laws

  • 1930

    1st night organized baseball game Independence. Kansas

  • 1933

    First All Star Game

  • 2015

    2015
    Kansas City Royals win the World Series