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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]
[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]
The World Series is the annual championship series of Major League Baseball (MLB) and concludes the MLB postseason. First played in 1903, [1] the World Series championship is a best-of-seven playoff and is a contest between the champions of baseball's National League (NL) and American League (AL). [2]
Negro National League II champion Negro American League World Series champion NNL I / NSL / NNL II / NAL Championship Series 1930: Philadelphia Athletics: St. Louis Cardinals: St. Louis Stars – – – – Philadelphia Athletics St. Louis Stars 1931 – – – – St. Louis Cardinals – 1932: New York Yankees: Chicago Cubs – Chicago ...
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.
The New York Yankees have the highest all-time regular season win–loss percentage (.569) in Major League Baseball history. Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball organization, which consists of a total of 30 teams—15 teams in the National League (NL) and 15 in the American League (AL). The NL and AL were formed in 1876 and ...
Major League Baseball seasons (154 C, 128 P) Pages in category "History of Major League Baseball" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total.