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Frist baseball team
In sep tember a group of men from New York City founded the new york Kinckerbockers baseball club -
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History of Baseball
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First Baseball Game
The first offical Baseball game was played in Hoboken New Jersey. -
National league
the national league is born -
First Home run hit
Joe harrington hits the first home run -
American league
the american league is created -
Firstworld series
the first world series ever played on october 1-13 -
First world series boycott
Discourse between the two leagues cause the two teams to refuse to play each other -
Perfect game
Cy young pitches the first ever perfect game in baseball -
The first baseball feild
Forbes feild the first major league baseball statium opened in pittsburgh pennsylvania -
Most career wins
Cy young wins his 511 game -
First to be payed a 5 figure salary
Ty Cobb reaches 5 figures in his salary and gets payed10,000 -
longest world series dry streak
the curse of the Bambino left a dry streak in boston the lasted 86 years from 1918 to 2994 -
Blacksox scandle
the white sox are accused of throwinf rge world series -
First payed over 50k
Babe Ruth was payed 52,000 -
Formation of the negro leagues
because of the agreement between the two leagues afracan americans were not allowed to play. so they created their own league -
Babe Ruth's ^)th home run
Baebe Ruth hit his 60th home run and set a single season record that stood for 34 years -
First night game
The first official night game is played -
longest hitting streak
Joe DiMaggio hits his 56th consecutive hit. it started on may15 and went until july of that year -
The first black player
Jackie Robbinson became the first black player in the major ;eague -
First to reach 6 figure salary
Joe DiMaggio is the first and second player in history to be payed 100.000 -
First indoor feild
The Astrodome, the first indoor statium in the world is opened in houston texas -
The baseball mound is lowered
the baseball mound is lowered 5 inches shrinking the strikezone -
Cracking the 500,000 mark
Mike Schmidttook home 561500 for the 1977 season -
a Million
Nolan Ryan was the first to reach the million dollar mark -
Most career hits
pete rose hits his 4256 hit -
players strike
Due to a disagreement between the owners and players the players go on strike -
His 2632 game played
Cal Ripkin plays his 2632 consecutive game played -
Single season home run record
Barry Bonds hits his 73rd home run of the season -
Steriod Era
the number of players using steriods is brought into light -
Most world series Win
as a whole the new york Yankees have won the most world seres with 27
