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Timeline of major events in the history of Major League baseball

Created by marykoler on May 20, 2008

Last updated: 11/17/09 at 08:10 AM

• Dipity Timeline Created
  May 20, 2008 7:16 PM

• Japanese
  2001

  Tsuyoshi Shinjo, an outfielder for the San Francisco Giants, becomes the first Japanese player to take part in a World Series game.

• President
  2000

  October 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
  1993

  The 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
  1985

  Bill Buckner makes a game-ending error in the World Series.

• Strike
  1980

  Baseball players strike for seven weeks.

• Refusive
  1968

  Curt Flood refuses trade to the Phillies, starting a long legal battle against baseball's reserve clause.

• Record Breaker
  1960

  Roger Maris breaks Babe Ruth's home run record.

• Dodgers
  1957

  Dodgers catcher Roy Campanella is paralyzed in a car accident.

• Don Larsen
  1955

  Don Larsen pitches a perfect game in the World Series.

• Death and Firsts
  1947

  Larry Doby is the first African-American player in the American League. Babe Ruth dies.

• Television
  1946

  First televised World Series.

• Hall of Fame
  1935

  The Baseball Hall of Fame inducts its first five players.

• Night Game
  1934

  Major League Baseball's first night game is played.

• First All-Star game
  1932

  Major League Baseball's first All-Star game is played.

• Babe Ruth
  1928

  Babe Ruth hits his 500th career home run.

• Radio
  1920

  Baseball is broadcast on radio for the first time.

• First African American
  1915

  Jimmy Claxton, the first black player in 20th century organized white baseball, is fired because of his African-American ancestry.

• Strike
  1911

  The first players' strike in Major League Baseball occurs.

• Cubs
  1905

  The Chicago Cubs win 116 games and lose 36.

• First World Series
  1902

  The Boston Pilgrims and the Pittsburgh Pirates play the first World Series.

• American League
  1899

  The American League is created.

• Cy Young
  1889

  Cy Young takes the mound in the Major Leagues for the first time.

• Players League
  1888

  The Players' League is created.

• African American
  1883

  Moses Fleetwood Walker becomes the first African-American player in the Major Leagues

• Louisville Slugger
  1883

  Pete Browning uses the first Louisville Slugger bat.

• American Baseball Association
  1881

  The American Baseball Association, also known as the Beer and Whiskey League, is created.

• Bribery
  1876

  4 players are banned for accepting bribes

• National League
  1875

  The National League is established

• Womens baseball
  1865

  First womens baseball team is formed.

• First official game played
  1845

  First official game of baseball is played between the Knickerbockers and a group of cricket players

• Rules of baseball created
  1844

  Alexander Joy Cartwright develops the rules of baseball

• Creation of Baseball
  1838

  Abner Doubleday is credited with creating the game of baseball