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Then, from 1943 to 1950, he worked to break the baseball color line and built another leading-edge farm system with the Dodgers, who are poised to become a National League dynasty. November 9 – After 2,422 games played (and 2,749 career hits) over his 21-season career, the Chicago White Sox release veteran Luke Appling , 43, their long-time ...
The Yankees swept the Phillies in four games, capturing their 13th championship in franchise history, and their second in a five-run World Series. The 17th Major League Baseball All-Star Game was played on July 11, hosted by the Chicago White Sox at Comiskey Park in Chicago, Illinois, with the National League winning, 4–3.
The Major League Baseball relocations of the 1950s–1960s brought several Major League Baseball franchises to the Western and Southern United States, expanding the league's geographical reach. This was in stark contrast to the early years of modern baseball, when the American League placed teams in National League cities.
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]
Following the fallout from the 1919 Black Sox Scandal, in November 1920, the National Baseball Commission was replaced by the Commissioner of Baseball, who acts as the chief executive officer of major and minor leagues. [3] [4] The Dayton Marcos departed the NNL as an independent team. A new Columbus Buckeyes joined the NNL.
The 1950 World Series was the 47th World Series between the American and National Leagues for the championship of Major League Baseball.The Philadelphia Phillies as 1950 champions of the National League and the New York Yankees, as 1950 American League champions, competed to win a best-of-seven game series.
Baseball has undergone so much overhaul in recent decades, it's become hard to keep track. But one of the biggest advancements in the game's history took place on this day in 1951.
On August 11, 1951 WCBS-TV in New York City televised the first baseball game (in which the Boston Braves beat the Brooklyn Dodgers by the score of 8–4) in color.On October 1 of that year, NBC aired the first coast-to-coast baseball telecast as the Brooklyn Dodgers were beaten by the New York Giants in the first game of a playoff series by the score of 3–1 featuring Bobby Thomson's two-run ...