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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 ...
1994–95 Major League Baseball strike: 1995: Cleveland Indians: Atlanta Braves: Atlanta Braves 1996: New York Yankees: New York Yankees 1997: Cleveland Indians: Florida Marlins: Florida Marlins 1998: New York Yankees: San Diego Padres: New York Yankees 1999: Atlanta Braves: New York Yankees
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]
The Kansas City Athletics: A Baseball History, 1954–1967. McFarland. ISBN 9780786481439. Purdy, Dennis (2010). Kiss 'Em Goodbye: An ESPN Treasury of Failed, Forgotten, and Departed Teams. Random House Digital. ISBN 9780345520470. Riess, Steven A. (2006). Encyclopedia of Major League Baseball Clubs. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 0313329915.
The deal earned Major League Baseball less than $500,000, but led to a new two-year contract for 40–45 games per season. On April 7, 1983, Major League Baseball, ABC, and NBC agreed to terms of a six-year television package worth $1.2 billion.
This was the first regular season Major League Baseball game to be aired on ABC since August 19, 1995, [331] when ABC was part of the short-lived Baseball Network and also the first [332] ESPN-produced regular season telecast that ABC would air. [333]