when was the first baseball allstar game?
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1933\nhttp://www.baseballlibrary.com/baseballlibrary/ballplayers/A/All_Star_Game.stm
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http://www.baseball-almanac.com/asgbox/07171979.shtml
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1947 - Don Bankhead becomes the first African American pitcher in major-league baseball.  The Brooklyn Dodger hurler helps his own cause by slamming a home run in his first appearance at the plate.
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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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Not sure which championship you are looking for or which of the several papers in the area would help....so here is a couple links to baseball championships for that era and a full listing of newspapers in the area.\n\nGood Luck
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The origins of baseball go back to the late 18th century--and not to Abner Doubleday in Cooperstown, New York.  It is related to the still-popular British cricket and the lesser-known Irish game rounders.\n\nThe first recorded beginnings of baseball are found in the "Knickerbocker Rules" written in 1845 by Alexander Cartwright for his Manhattan team, which essentially established the rules baseball is still played by today.  The rules suggest the game had been played in some form prior to that, but it is uncertain actually when.\n\nWhile I can find no reference to Maine and the origins of the game, it is likely that some version of cricket and/or rounders may have been played there which evolved into more of what baseball is.  Historians, however, seem to be in agreement that baseball evolved from amateur urban teams (similar to the Knickerbockers) into the beginnings of professional baseball by 1870.\n\nHere's more on the origins of baseball from Wikipedia:
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MLB all star. I love baseball!!
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Here is a bit of info - with a link to more info below:\n\nMost cultures have some sort of stick and ball game, cricket being the most well-known. While the exact origins of baseball are unknown, most historians agree that it is based on the English game of rounders. It began to become quote popular in this country in the early 19th century, and many sources report the growing popularity of a game called "townball", "base", or "baseball".\n\nThroughout the early part of that century, small towns formed teams, and baseball clubs were formed in larger cities. In 1845, Alexander Cartwright wanted to formalize a list of rules by which all team could play. Much of that original code is still in place today. Although popular legend says that the game was invented by Abner Doubleday, baseball's true father was Cartwright.\n\nThe first recorded baseball contest took place a year later, in 1846. Cartwright's Knickerbockers lost to the New York Baseball Club in a game at the Elysian Fields, in Hoboken, New Jersey. These amateur games became more frequent and more popular. In 1857, a convention of amateur teams was called to discuss rules and other issues. Twenty five teams from the northeast sent delegates. The following year, they formed the National Association of Base Ball Players, the first organized baseball league. In its first year of operation, the league supported itself by occasionally charging fans for admission. The future looked very bright.
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Usually 10 to 12 depending on the manager selecting the team.\n\nEach team consists of 32 players, selected in one of the following ways, listed in order:\n\nFan voting: Baseball fans vote on the starting position players for the All-Star Game, with ballots distributed at baseball games before mid-season and, more recently, on the Internet. When the game is played at an American League park, the designated hitter for the AL team is also selected in this manner. \n\nPlayer voting: As of 2005, pitchers and one back-up player for each position are elected by the other players. If the top vote-getter at a certain position is also being voted in via fan voting, then the second-place finisher in this category is chosen for the team. \n\nManager selection (first): The manager and the Commissioner's Office will fill the roster up to 31 players. \n\nFinal vote: After the lists of 31 players for each league is announced, fans will vote for one additional player, chosen from a list of 5 players provided by the manager and the Commissioner's Office. \n\nManager selection (second): After the final vote, the manager and the Commissioner's Office will replace players who are injured or declined to participate. Each major league team is guaranteed to have at least one player selected to participate, though single players from poor teams are occasionally not used (Detroit's Dmitri Young, in 2003, was the last to be selected and not be put into the game by the manager).
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Making it as the first Major League Baseball player
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Baseball.  In particular, the Oakland A's
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Main article: History of baseball \nThe origins and evolution of the various bat-and-ball games are murky, and many believe that baseball is primarily an American invention. However, because of the similarity in its most basic form, of its rules and game-play, it is far more likely that it originated as an adaptation of the game of English rounders, vigaro and town ball. It was also influenced by the rules of cricket.\n\n \n1886 baseball demonstration at Conner Prairie living history museum.The first explicit references to baseball appear to come from England. The earliest known mention of the sport is in a 1744 publication, A Little Pretty Pocket-Book by John Newbery. It contains a wood-cut illustration of boys playing "baseball" (showing a similar set-up to the modern game) and a rhymed description of the sport. Also, a British letter dating from 1748 by Lady Hervey describes how the then Prince of Wales diverted his time playing baseball. The English author Jane Austen specifically mentions the game of baseball in her novel, Northanger Abbey, being played by the protagonist, Catherine Moreland. The book was first written in 1798 and revised until publication in 1803.\n\nAlexander Cartwright had a hand in compiling and publishing an early list of rules in 1845 (the so-called Knickerbocker Rules) to meet the demands of the already popular sport, and today's rules of baseball have evolved from them.\n\nAs 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.\n\nAnother early mention of the game can be found in an 1886 edition of Sporting Life magazine, in a letter from Dr. Matthew Harris of Boston, Massachusetts, formerly of St. Marys, Ontario, Canada, who details a base ball game played in Beachville, Ontario, Canada, on June 4, 1838 -- Militia Muster Day.\n\nProfessional baseball began in the United States around 1865, and the National League was founded in 1876 as the first true major league, quickly producing famous players such as Honus Wagner. Several other major leagues formed and failed, but the American League, established in 1901 as a major league and originating from the minor Western League (1893), did succeed. While the two leagues were rivals who actively fought for the best players, often disregarding one another's contracts and engaging in bitter legal disputes, a modicum of peace was established in 1903, and they began playing a World Series that year.\n\nCompared to modern times, games in the early part of the 20th century were lower scoring and pitchers were more successful. The "inside game", whose nature was to "scratch for runs", was played rather more violently and aggressively than it is today. Ty Cobb said of his era especially, "Baseball is something like a war!" This period, which has since become known as the "dead-ball era", ended in the 1920s with several rule changes that gave advantages to hitters and the rise of the legendary baseball player Babe Ruth, who showed the world what power hitting could produce and thus changed the nature of the game.\n\nDuring the first half of the 20th century, a "gentlemen's agreement" in the form of the baseball
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Johnny Vander Meer of the Cincinnati Reds did it in 1938.  On June 11 he no-hit the Boston Braves, 3-0, and on June 15 he no-hit the Brooklyn Dodgers, 6-0.  Both games were away games; the second no-hitter was the first night game ever played at Ebbets Field.
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I don't consider baseball the all American sport anymore. Rather watch football more then anything these days.
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The first professional league was called the "National Association", and it was just that...an association of players, rather than a League of "Clubs".  This Association lasted from 1871-1875.\n\nThe Association gave way to the National League in 1876, and the N.L. is considered to be the first "Major" league.\n\nOther organizations that were considered "Major Leagues" during the 19th Century included:\n\nThe Union Association 1884\nThe Players League 1890\nThe American Association 1882-1891\n\nThe 20th century saw the emergence of the American League in 1901 (it actually existed in 1900).\n\nAlso, the "Federal League" operated in 1914 and 1915, and this is also considered to be a major league.... \n\nThe statistics of players who played in these leagues are all included in their career totals, and recognized by Major League Baseball, with the exception of the National Association 1871-1875.\n\nThe National Association had a very erratic schedule and because it was really not operated very well, and good records were not really kept, present-day Major League Baseball does not officially recognize the statistics of players who participated in this league. Cap Anson was probably that League's biggest star.\n\nThe status of the Union Association as a major league is also questionable, due to the fact that there was only one good team (St. Louis) and the rosters were pretty much a revolving door, with players moving freely between teams....contracts apparently didn't mean much to these people.\n\nAlso, whole teams dropped in and out of that league...  It was not a well run organization at all
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<The first version of softball was invented in Chicago, Illinois in 1887 by George Hancock, a reporter for the Chicago Board of Trade, as a winter version of baseball. It was intended to be a way for baseball players to keep in practice during the winter.
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The first black professional baseball player, Bud Fowler debuted in the 1878 International Association.