Today in the History of Baseball Leagues
Baseball Leagues: American League - Minor League - MLB - National League
Events in Sport
- 1871-05-04 1st baseball league game (National Association of Baseball Players), (Ft Wayne 2, Cleveland 0) Deacon Jim White gets 1st hit, a double
- 1879-01-02 Northwestern League (minor baseball league) organized, Rockford, Illinois
- 1889-10-24 Softball rules adopted by Mid Winter Indoor Baseball League
- 1901-09-05 National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues forms
- 1915-12-22 Federal Baseball League disolved
- 1919-10-30 Baseball league presidents call for abolishment of spitball
- 1920-01-04 1st Black baseball league, National Negro Baseball League, organizes
- 1920-02-13 National Negro Baseball League organizes
- 1920-05-02 1st game of National Negro Baseball League played in Indianapolis
- 1934-01-05 National & American baseball leagues select a uniform ball
- 1945-05-07 Branch Rickey announces formation of the US Negro Baseball League
Event of Interest
1946-03-09 Ted Williams is offered $500,000 to play in Mexican Baseball League, he refuses
Ted Williams
- 1948-09-20 Mexican Baseball league disbanded
- 1959-08-01 New Continental baseball league formed
Deaths in Sport
- 2010-11-22 Jean Cione, American All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player (b. 1928)