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MLB Is Established

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Tags Baseball Professionalism
City/State/Country: United States
Game Baseball
Immediacy of Report Contemporary
Age of Players Adult
Notables William Hulbert
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On February 2, 1876 Major League Baseball took shape.

 

 

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John Thorn, History Awakens: February 2, 1876 and the  Founding of the National League: An Amazing New Discovery.

https://ourgame.mlblogs.com/history-awakens-february-2-1876-and-the-founding-of-the-national-league-ab2ef2dae954

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John Thorn's comment:  "[T]he story of how a player-based professional organization (the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players, 1871–1875) gave way to one that was club-based (the National League of Professional Base Ball Clubs, 1876 to date) did not take place all on one day; it had commenced earlier, with considerable stealth.

A flummoxed Henry Chadwick termed this revolutionary idea — which is the very genesis of all of today’s professional sports leagues — a “coup d’état,” and he was right."

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