what year was major league baseball created?
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The first Major League Baseball Constitution, then called the NL constitution, was created in 1876.  However, the organizational structure that currently exists featuring the National and American Leagues working together as a single national sport was not created until 1903.
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The origins and evolution of the various bat-and-ball games are murky, and many believe that baseball is primarily an American invention. However, many believe that it originated as an adaptation of the game of rounders, and was also influenced by the rules of cricket. As far back as the 1870s, American newspapers were referring to baseball as "The National Pastime" or "The National Game." An award-winning account of the origins of the game is David Block's Baseball Before We Knew It: A Search for the Roots of the Game (University of Nebraska Press, 2005). The publisher's description of the book notes that "David Block looks into the early history of the game and of the 150-year-old debate about its beginnings. He tackles one stubborn misconception after another, debunking the enduring belief that baseball descended from the English game of rounders and revealing a surprising new explanation for the most notorious myth of all—the Abner Doubleday–Cooperstown story." In short, the debate on the game's origins may never be settled to everyone's satisfaction.
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-127 people ran the first New York City Marathon in 1970, 32,000 ran in 1998. \n\n-The Cincinnati Redstockings was the first baseball team to pay its players. \n\n-Rowing is the oldest American college sport still in existence. \n\n-The Tour de France bicycle race is 2,300 miles long. \n\n-When badminton was invented in India, it was known as poona\n\n- The referee tossed a jump ball after every basket in basketball until 1937\n\n-The first baseball player to be named rookie of the year was Jackie Robinson in 1947. \n\n-Mickey Mantle is credited with the longest home run ever, 643 feet. \n\n------------------------------------------------\n- THE SLIHOUETTE ON THE NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION IS JERRY WEST\n\n- THE SILHOUETTE ON THE MAJOR LEAGUE OF BASEBALL LOGO IS HARMON KILLEBREW \n\n- PISTSBURGH, PENNSLYVANIA IS THE ONLY CITY IN THE USA WITH 3 SPORTS TEAMS THAT ALL WEAR THE SAME COLOURS\n\n- SEVEN OLYMPIC GOLD MEDAL WINNERS EVENTUALLY WENT ON TO WIN THE HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE WORLD \n\n- A FOREFITTED GAME IN BASEBALL IS RECORDED AS A 9-0 SCORE. IN FOOTBALL IT IS RECORDED AS A 1-0 SCORE\n\n- IN 1986 DANNY HEEP BECAME THE FIRST PLAYER IN A WORLD SERIES TO BE A DESIGNATED HITTER (DH) WITH THE INITIALS "D.H" \n\n- THE ONLY PERSON TO BE ELECTED TO BOTH THE FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME AND THE BASEBALL HALL OF FAME IS CAL HUBBARD \n\n- KRESIMIR COSIC IS THE ONLY NON-AMERICAN PLAYER IN THE NBA HALL OF FAME  \n\n- DECATUR, ILLINOIS WAS THE ORIGINAL HOME OF THE CHICAGO BEARS  \n\n- THE 1957 MILWAUKEE BREWERS WERE THE FIRST TEAM TO WIN THE WORLD SERIES AFTER BEING RELOCATED. \n------------------------------------------------\n\nIn the NBA, Shaq wears the biggest shoes, he wears size 22.\n\nThe first puck used in a game of ice hockey was a frozen cow patty.\n\nJai-Alai is the world's fastest ball game. A small, hard ball is thrown at a granite wall at speeds of around 188mph (303km/h) using scoops that are latched to the players' hands.\n\nQ: What travels faster: a serve from Andy Roddick, a slapshot from Jarome Iginla or a fastball from Pedro Martinez? \nA: Andy Roddick's serve is the fastest. Some of his serves have traveled at 149 miles per hour (240 kilometers per hour)!\n\nPeach baskets were used in the first basketball game.\n\nQ:  A game in which players kick a ball with their feet is called soccer in North America but football everywhere else in the world. Where does the term "soccer" come from? \nA:  The word soccer comes from an abbreviation of the word association - which was a reference to The first Football Association, which was formed in England in 1863.\n\nQ:  The national sport of Afghanistan is called buzkashi. What is the object of this game? \nA:  Buzkashi is a sport where teams score points for carrying a goat's carcass across a goal line, while riding on a horse.\n\nIn 2002, Takeru Kobayashi ate 50 hotdogs in 12 minutes to set a new world record for hotdog eating.\n\nRandall Simon of the Pittsburgh Pirates fined $432 during the 2003 baseball season for attacking a woman dressed up as a sausage with a baseball bat\n\nBoxer Mike Tyson was disqualified from the 1997 fight after he bit Evander Holyfield's ear twice. The second time he actually took a piece out of Holyfield's ear.\n\nBefore 1859, umpires sat in a padded rocking chair behind the catcher.\n\nIn the National Hockey League, home teams wear white jerseys and visiting teams wear dark jerseys. That's because back in the 1960s, the league figured it would be more difficult to keep white uniforms clean while players were on the road. \n\nYou've probably  heard people say, "It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye." Well that phrase comes from Ancient Rome. The only rule during Roman wrestling matches was, "No eye gouging." Biting, kicking and scratching were allowed but the only way to be disqualified was to poke someone's eye out. \n\nYou might think a yo-yo is just a
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The first major league night game was May 24, 1935 at Crosley Field in Cincinnati.
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Making it as the first Major League Baseball player
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Pro Baseball?\n\nWell, the 1st pro baseball team were the Cincinnati Redstockings (Reds) which declared themselves "Professional" in 1867 but there wasn't a rival league until 1882.\n\nStatistics weren't accurate nor kept/recorded during this time frame.
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The American League instituted the DH rule before the 1973 season and Ron Blomberg of the New York Yankees became the first MLB player to officially play the postition on April 6, 1973.\n\nThe official rule states that any league may use the rule if it so chooses. The American League decided to experiment with the rule starting with the 1973 season in an effort to boost offensive production (since pitchers are traditionally poor hitters), liked it and has continued to use it. The National League (the Senior Circuit) decided to stay more traditional and has continued to make pitchers hit for themselves. The DH rule specifically states that the DH will be used in the home park of a team that regularly uses the rule (why you have DH in AL home games of a World Series) and that it will be used in an All-Star game only if both leagues agree in advance.\n\nIronically, it was the National League, not the American League, that first proposed using a DH. National League president John Heydler advocated the rule change at the annual major-league meeting in Chicago on Dec. 1, 1928. The NL owners approved the rule, but the AL rejected it, thus ending the debate on the rule until it revived in the 1970s.
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Baseball... no room for discussion.  Just simply put baseball.
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According to Major League Baseball:\n"The MLB logo: No one player has ever been identified as the model of the 1969 Major League Baseball batter logo."
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The longest game in the major leagues, ever was 8 hours and 6 minutes between the Chicago White Sox and Milwaukee Brewers (who were an American League team at the time).  The game lasted 25 innings, and the Sox took it 7-6.  The date was May 5, 1984.\n\nMore MLB records, including longest doubleheaders, etc, can be found here:\nhttp://www.baseball-almanac.com/recbooks/rb_gmlg.shtml
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The Major League Baseball season has been 162 games long for each team since 1961 (American League) and 1962 (National League). For the four-plus decades prior, the standard season length was 154 games. This page is about the evolution of the season schedule since Major League Baseball began.
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The Boston Pilgrims defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1903 for the first world series.
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Baseball's modern era began in 1900 but was played for several years before that.  There were probably no records kept back then.
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The Princeton Tigers and Columbia Lions, on May 17, 1930.  The first major league games were a doubleheader between the Dodgers and the Reds on August 26, 1930.
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The same year that the NFL created the AFC South.\n\n2002
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The first year on the AL featured the Chicago White Sox, Boston Americans, Milwaukee Brewers, Cleveland Blues, Baltimore Orioles, Washington Senators, Philadelphia A's, and Detroit Tigers.\n\nThe Orioles would move to New York and become the Yankees, while the others are still around in one form or another.\n\nThe original NL teams (1876) were the Chicago White Stockings (who became the Cubs), Hartford Dark Blues (gone), St. Louis Brown Stockings (gone), Boston Red Caps (now the Atlanta Braves), Louisville Grays (gone), NY Mutuals (gone), Philadelphia A's (gone, not the same A's as today), and the Cincinnati Reds, who are not the same as today's Reds franchise, which started as an American Association team in 1882.
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At the end of the 1900 season the American League re-organized and, with its president Ban Johnson as the driving force, decided to assert itself as a new major league. Previously a minor league (known as the Western League until 1899), the American League carried over five of its previous locations and added three more on the East Coast, including one in Baltimore, Maryland, which had lost its National League team when that league contracted the year before. The intention of Johnson and the American League had been to place a team in New York City, but their efforts had been stymied by the political connections that owners of the National League New York Giants had with Tammany Hall.\n\nWhen the team began play as the Baltimore Orioles in 1901, they were managed by John McGraw. As a result of a feud with league president Ban Johnson, who rigidly enforced rules about rowdyism on the field of play, McGraw jumped leagues to manage the New York Giants in the middle of the 1902 season. A week later the owner of the Giants also gained controlling interest of the Orioles and raided the team for players, after which the league declared the team forfeit and took control, still intending to move the franchise to New York when and if possible.\n\nIn January 1903, the American and National Leagues held a "peace conference" to settle conflicts over player contract disputes and to agree on future cooperation. The NL also agreed that the "junior circuit" could establish a franchise in New York. The AL's Baltimore franchise became the New York franchise when its new owners, Frank Farrell and William Devery, were able to find a ballpark location not blocked by the Giants. Farrell and Devery both had deep ties into city politics and gambling. Farrell owned a casino and several pool halls, while Devery had served as a blatantly corrupt chief of the New York City police and had only been forced out of the department at the start of 1902.\n\nThe Highlanders\nThe franchise's first park in New York was located at 165th St. and Broadway in Manhattan, near the highest point on the island. Consequently the field was known as Hilltop Park and the team quickly became known as the New York Highlanders. The name was also a reference to the noted British military unit The Gordon Highlanders, as the team president from 1903 to 1906 was named Joseph Gordon. Today the site of the original Hilltop Park is occupied by buildings of the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center.\n\nAs the Highlanders, the team enjoyed success only twice, finishing in second place in 1904 and 1910; but otherwise, much of their first fifteen years in New York was spent in the cellar. Their somewhat tainted ownership, along with the questionable activities of some players, notably first baseman Hal Chase, raised suspicions of game-fixing, but little of that was ever proven.\n\nTheir best chance came on the last day of the 1904 season, at the Hilltop. New York pitcher Jack Chesbro threw a wild pitch in the ninth inning which allowed the eventual pennant-winning run to score for the Boston Americans. This event had historical significance in several ways. First, the presence of the Highlanders in the race had led the Giants to announce they would not participate in the World Series against a "minor league" team. Although Boston had won the pennant, the Giants still refused to participate. The resulting tongue-lashing of the Giants by the media stung their owner, John T. Brush, who then led a committee that formalized the rules governing the World Series. 1904 was the last year a Series was not played, until the strike-truncated year of 1994. For fans of the team formally named the Red Sox in 1908, the 1904 season-ender would prove to be the last time Boston would defeat the Yankees in a pennant-deciding game for literally a century.\n\nFrom 1913 to 1922 the team would play in the Polo Grounds, a park owned by their National League rivals, the Giants. R