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From Wikipedia:
In the mid-1850s, a baseball craze hit the New York metropolitan area.
By 1856, local journals were referring to baseball as the "national
pastime" or "national game". A year later, sixteen area clubs formed the
sport's first governing body, the National Association of Base Ball
Players. In 1863, the organization disallowed putouts made by catching a
fair ball on the first bounce. Four years later, it barred
participation by African Americans. The game's commercial potential was
developing: in 1869 the first fully professional baseball club, the
Cincinnati Red Stockings, was formed and went undefeated against a
schedule of semipro and amateur teams. The first professional league,
the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players, lasted from
1871 to 1875; scholars dispute its status as a major league.
The
more formally structured National League was founded in 1876. As the
oldest surviving major league, the National League is sometimes referred
to as the "senior circuit". Several other major leagues formed and
failed. In 1884, African American Moses Walker (and, briefly, his
brother Welday) played in one of these, the American Association. An
injury ended Walker's major league career, and by the early 1890s, a
gentlemen's agreement in the form of the baseball color line effectively
barred black players from the white-owned professional leagues, major
and minor. Professional Negro leagues formed, but quickly folded.
Several independent African American teams succeeded as barnstormers.
Also in 1884, overhand pitching was legalized. In 1887, softball, under
the name of indoor baseball or indoor-outdoor, was invented as a winter
version of the parent game. Virtually all of the modern baseball rules
were in place by 1893; the last major change—counting foul balls as
strikes—was instituted in 1901. The National League's first successful
counterpart, the American League, which evolved from the minor Western
League, was established that year.
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