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MLB Is Established
Salience | Prominent |
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Tags | Baseball ProfessionalismBaseball Professionalism |
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City/State/Country: | United States |
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Game | BaseballBaseball |
Immediacy of Report | Contemporary |
Age of Players | AdultAdult |
Holiday | |
Notables | William Hulbert |
Text | On February 2, 1876 Major League Baseball took shape.
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Sources | John Thorn, History Awakens: February 2, 1876 and the Founding of the National League: An Amazing New Discovery. |
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Comment | 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." Edit with form to add a comment |
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Source Image | [[Image:|left|thumb]] |
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Submitted by | John Thorn |
Submission Note | Our Game writeup, 4/24/2017 |
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1876.1 MLB Is Established"
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