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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," [61] moved his team to Los Angeles, marking the first major league franchise on the West Coast. [62]
Start of Major League Baseball games depends on days of the week, game number in series, holidays, and other factors. As of 2021, most games start at 6:30 p.m., 7 p.m., or 7:30 p.m. in the local time zone, so there are more night games than day games even though baseball is traditionally played during the day.
NFL regular season games have also been played in Canada, Mexico, Germany, and Brazil [citation needed]. MLB has played regular season games outside of the United States and Canada, but in the 1990s and 2000s, games were initially limited to Mexico and Japan due to baseball's popularity in both countries.
With an average attendance of over 20,000 per game, MLS has the third highest average attendance of any sports league in the U.S. after the National Football League (NFL) and Major League Baseball (MLB), [5] and is the seventh highest attended professional soccer league worldwide. [6]
Year American League champion National League champion World Series / Chronicle-Telegraph Cup champion 1900 – Brooklyn Superbas: Brooklyn Superbas () : 1901
LeBron James set yet another record on Friday as he surpassed the legendary Michael Jordan’s mark for the most 30-point games in NBA history, breaking the milestone in the Los Angeles Lakers ...
The best single regular season record was recorded by the Golden State Warriors in the 2015–16 season. In that season, the Warriors recorded 73 wins and 9 losses with a winning percentage of .890, surpassing the 72-win 1995–96 Chicago Bulls , though the Bulls went on to win the Eastern Conference and the NBA championship.
Negro Leagues legend and Baseball Hall of Famer Josh Gibson will become MLB’s single-season record holder in batting average (.466 in 1943), slugging percentage (.974 in 1937) and OPS (1.474 in ...