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It s time once again for the Boys of October to shine. Both the National League
and the American League of Major League Baseball are working to determine
champion teams that will compete beginning October 22 in the World Series. For
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season skirting the toilet bowl, you may be just as happy to move on to football
or hockey or heck, another big sport which is just beginning its competitive
season: figure skating. If you re fortunate enough to have a team that s still
in it, so to speak, you are probably employing all your DVR technical skills to
ensure you don t miss a minute of the big games that make our national pastime
such a diehard tradition for so many. Baseball, or a form of it, has been
popular in America since the time of the Revolutionary War. At that time, men
and boys played various versions of the game using improvised equipment, and
even arranged tournaments between different church groups and communities. Diary
entries have been discovered from England dating as far back as 1755 discussing
baseball, and the first mention of an actual game in what became the United
States comes from a diary entry dated in 1792. The New York Knickerbockers are
considered the first organized team to have played under modern rules. In 1857,
six New York area clubs joined to form the National Association of Base Ball
Players, with membership rising to 400 clubs by 1867. Some member clubs were
located in cities as far away as California. In 1870, controversy arose
concerning the issue of professional baseball players. In 1871, the NABBP split
into two separate organizations: the National Association of Amateur Baseball
Players, which lasted only a few years, and the also short lived National
Association of Professional Base Ball Players. The National Association was
dominated for most of its duration from 1871 through 1875 by the Boston Red
Stockings. The Boston team, now known as the Red Sox, benefitted from its
establishment in a city that was large enough to financially support a major
league baseball team. Other teams in the National Association were the Chicago
White Stockings, the Washington Nationals (also known as the Washington Blue
Legs), the Cleveland Forest Citys, the Fort Wayne Kekiongas, the New York
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Middletown Mansfields, the Baltimore Marylands, the Philadelphia Athletics, the
Philadelphia White Stockings (also called the Pearls or the Phillies), the
Elizabeth Resolutes, the Hartford Dark Blues, the Philadelphia Centennials, the
New Haven Elm Citys, the St. Louis Brown Stockings, and the St. Louis Red
Stockings. In addition to the number of smaller cities that were unsuccessful at
maintaining the cost of the baseball teams, the National Association suffered
because there was no central authority governing the league and because of
interference by gambling interests. Because of the success of the cities of
Cincinnati and Boston at demonstrating the financial viability of their baseball
teams, several clubs joined together to replace the National Association with
the Nation League. Rival leagues were not successful until the founding of the
American League in 1901 a league that evolved from the Western League, a minor
league group of clubs that was first established in 1893. The leagues worked
together to develop new rules and standards for both the game itself and
equipment. Prior to that time, standards between leagues and even individual
clubs could vary widely. Since the early days of the sport, there has come the
rise and fall of the Negro Leagues, which disbanded during the Great Depression,
and the All American Girls Professional Baseball League, which started as a
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actually played by the ladies included a mix of softball and baseball rules and
equipment. It was not until 1954 that the league began to play true baseball as
a last ditch effort to save the league from extinction. Playing like the boys
did not extend the life of the league, which folded following the 1954 season.
In addition to American baseball, leagues have been founded throughout the
world. When you tune in to watch your team on the diamond, remember that you are
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RealGM Wiretap The Tigers retired Sparky Anderson's No. 11 on Sunday. "He
wouldn't want all of the limelight and stuff like that -- which he never did
want -- but he's such a great guy, and he deserves everything that they're
showering on him now," former pitcher Milt Wilcox said. "More so than just being
a baseball manager, he was just a great guy. I think that's what most of the
players realized about him -- yeah, he was a good manager, maybe even a great
manager, but he was a great person." The organization retired Ande.