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In 2020, Major League Baseball designated the following seven Negro leagues from 1920–1948 as major leagues: [2] Negro National League I (NNL I) (1920–1931) Eastern Colored League (ECL) (1923–1928) American Negro League (ANL) (1929) East–West League (EWL) (1932) Negro Southern League (NSL) (1932) Negro National League II (NNL II) (1933 ...
The 1958 Major League Baseball season began to turn Major League Baseball into a nationwide league. Walter O'Malley , owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers and "perhaps the most influential owner of baseball's early expansion era," [ 69 ] moved his team to Los Angeles, marking the first major league franchise on the West Coast. [ 70 ]
In major league baseball, the dead-ball era refers to a period from about 1900 to 1920 in which run scoring was low and home runs were rare in comparison to the years that followed. In 1908, the major league batting average dropped to .239, and teams averaged just 3.4 runs per game, the lowest ever.
[66] [67] Integration proceeded slowly: by 1953, only six of the 16 major league teams had a black player on the roster. [64] That year, the Major League Baseball Players Association was founded. It was the first professional baseball union to survive more than briefly, but it remained largely ineffective for years. [68]
Repeated studies have shown that contemporary Major League Baseball players have a greater life expectancy than males in the general U.S. population — about five years more, on average, which is attributed to their superior fitness and healthy lifestyles. The longer the active career, the longer the player lives, on average.
The live-ball era, also referred to as the lively ball era, is the period in Major League Baseball since 1920. It contrasts with the pre-1920 period known as the " dead-ball era ". The name "live-ball era" comes from the dramatic rise in offensive statistics , a direct result of a series of rule changes (introduced in 1920) that were ...
Babe Ruth was the most dominant player in the golden age of baseball. The golden age of baseball, or sometimes the golden era, describes the period in Major League Baseball from the end of the dead-ball era until the modern era—roughly, from 1920 to sometime after World War II. [1] [2] The exact years are debated.
A study by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company that assessed the vital statistics of more than 10,000 baseball players and general mortality rates in the United States concluded that players whose careers began between 1876 and 1900 experienced only 97% expected mortality, those who debuted between 1901 and 1930 had only 64% expected mortality, and those who debuted between 1931 and 1973 ...