Field 2

Early Years

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  • Baseball is invented

    Baseball is invented
    Abner Doubleday is said to have created the game in a cow pasture in Cooperstown, NY.

  • Diamond is created

    Diamond is created
    Alexander Cartwright designed a baseball field that is still in use today.

  • First Official Baseball Game

    First Official Baseball Game
    Cartwright's Knickerbocker team loses to the New York Baseball Club at Elysian Fields in Hoboken, NJ.

  • First Professional Baseball Team

    First Professional Baseball Team
    Cincinnati Red Stockings become the first organized baseball team in which the players were paid.

  • First Major League formed

    First Major League formed
    Baseball's National Association is formed, with teams located in Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Hartford, Louisville, New York, Philadelphia and St. Louis,

  • National League is formed

    National League is formed
    National League replaces the NABBP.

  • Segregation

    Segregation
    Gentleman's agreement is reached, prohibiting blacks from playing professional baseball.

  • Western League is Formed

    Western League is Formed
    Ban Johnson creates the Western League, whose teams consist of Detroit, Grand Rapids, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Sioux City and Toledo. Would later become the American League.