Baseball as America : Baseball Timeline

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Baseball: A Cultural Timeline (continued)

1939 The first televised major league game is broadcast from Ebbets Field in Brooklyn.
1939 Little League Baseball is founded.
1942 Just weeks after the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt declares, “it would be best for the country to keep baseball going.”
1943 Philip K. Wrigley starts what will become the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, the country’s only professional female league.
1947 By joining the Dodgers, Jackie Robinson becomes the first African-American to play major league baseball in the 20th century.
1957 The Dodgers leave Brooklyn for Los Angeles. The Giants leave New York for San Francisco. Major league baseball finally reaches the west coast.
1966 Astroturf, the first artificial sports surface, is installed in the Houston Astrodome.

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