- Dipity Timeline Created
May 20, 2008 7:16 PM - Japanese
2001Tsuyoshi Shinjo, an outfielder for the San Francisco Giants, becomes the first Japanese player to take part in a World Series game.
- President
2000October 30, just weeks after the terrorist attacks of September 11, President George W. Bush throws out the first ball of the third game of the World Series in New York's Yankee Stadium.
- Longest Strike
1993The year without a World Series: the longest and costliest strike in baseball history begins on August 12, and lasts until the following spring.
- Game Ender
1985Bill Buckner makes a game-ending error in the World Series.
- Strike
1980Baseball players strike for seven weeks.
- Refusive
1968Curt Flood refuses trade to the Phillies, starting a long legal battle against baseball's reserve clause.
- Record Breaker
1960Roger Maris breaks Babe Ruth's home run record.
- Dodgers
1957Dodgers catcher Roy Campanella is paralyzed in a car accident.
- Don Larsen
1955Don Larsen pitches a perfect game in the World Series.
- Death and Firsts
1947Larry Doby is the first African-American player in the American League.
Babe Ruth dies.
- Television
1946First televised World Series.
- Hall of Fame
1935The Baseball Hall of Fame inducts its first five players.
- Night Game
1934Major League Baseball's first night game is played.
- First All-Star game
1932Major League Baseball's first All-Star game is played.
- Babe Ruth
1928Babe Ruth hits his 500th career home run.
- Radio
1920Baseball is broadcast on radio for the first time.
- First African American
1915Jimmy Claxton, the first black player in 20th century organized white baseball, is fired because of his African-American ancestry.
- Strike
1911The first players' strike in Major League Baseball occurs.
- Cubs
1905The Chicago Cubs win 116 games and lose 36.
- First World Series
1902The Boston Pilgrims and the Pittsburgh Pirates play the first World Series.
- American League
1899The American League is created.
- Cy Young
1889Cy Young takes the mound in the Major Leagues for the first time.
- Players League
1888The Players' League is created.
- African American
1883Moses Fleetwood Walker becomes the first African-American player in the Major Leagues
- Louisville Slugger
1883Pete Browning uses the first Louisville Slugger bat.
- American Baseball Association
1881The American Baseball Association, also known as the Beer and Whiskey League, is created.
- Bribery
18764 players are banned for accepting bribes
- National League
1875The National League is established
- Womens baseball
1865First womens baseball team is formed.
- First official game played
1845First official game of baseball is played between the Knickerbockers and a group of cricket players
- Rules of baseball created
1844Alexander Joy Cartwright develops the rules of baseball
- Creation of Baseball
1838Abner Doubleday is credited with creating the game of baseball