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1904 |
 The stories differ, but some time during these years baseball meets the hot dog and an American classic is born.
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1908 |
The Mills Commission, a “blue-ribbon panel” appointed by A.G. Spalding, concludes that baseball was invented by Gen. Abner Doubleday, in Cooperstown, NY, in 1839—declaring it a purely American sport.
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1910 |
William Howard Taft becomes the first U.S. President to throw out the first pitch on opening day.
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1919 |
Black Sox Scandal: Eight players on the Chicago White Sox conspire with gamblers to throw the World Series. They are acquitted in a court of law—but they are banned from baseball forever.
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1920 |
 The Negro National League, the first financially successful all-black league, is founded by Hall-of-Famer Rube Foster.
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1921 |
Station KDKA in Pittsburgh broadcasts radio’s first live major league game. (Fewer than 10 percent of Americans own a radio.)
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1935 |
The first night game in major league baseball is played in Cincinnati. |
