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Abner Doubleday is said to have created the game in a cow pasture in Cooperstown, NY.
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Alexander Cartwright designed a baseball field that is still in use today.
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Cartwright's Knickerbocker team loses to the New York Baseball Club at Elysian Fields in Hoboken, NJ.
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Cincinnati Red Stockings become the first organized baseball team in which the players were paid.
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Baseball's National Association is formed, with teams located in Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Hartford, Louisville, New York, Philadelphia and St. Louis,
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National League replaces the NABBP.
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Gentleman's agreement is reached, prohibiting blacks from playing professional baseball.
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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.
