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The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs, known simply as the National League (NL), is the older of two leagues constituting Major League Baseball (MLB) in the United States and Canada, and the world's oldest extant professional team sports league. Founded on February 2, 1876, to replace the National Association of Professional Base ...
Joe Borden, pitching under the pseudonym Joe Josephs, is the winning pitcher, and Jim O'Rourke collected the league's first base hit. [7] [9] April 25: Louisville: Louisville Baseball Park: In Chicago's first National League game, Albert Spalding threw the NL's first shutout as Chicago defeated Louisville by the score of 4–0. Spalding threw ...
Baseball Frontier League 1993–2008, 2011–2015 Rockford Thunder: Fastpitch softball National Pro Fastpitch: 2007–2009 Schaumburg Flyers: Baseball Northern League 1993–2010 Southern Illinois Miners: Baseball Frontier League 2007–2021 Tri-Cities Blackhawks: Basketball National Basketball League 1946−1951
Oft-cited arguments in favor of the National Association are its status as the first fully professional baseball league, the fact that several of its teams continued on as part of the National League when it was founded in 1876, and the much more complete state of National Association records today than they were in 1969, thanks to research ...
The 1958 Major League Baseball season began to turn Major League Baseball into a nationwide league. Walter O'Malley, owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers and "perhaps the most influential owner of baseball's early expansion era," [61] moved his team to Los Angeles, marking the first major league franchise on the West Coast. [62]
Following the 1999 season, the American and National Leagues were merged with Major League Baseball, and the leagues ceased to exist as business entities. The role of the league president was eliminated. [10] In 2001, Bill Giles, son of Warren Giles, was named honorary president of the NL. [11]
This article is a list of teams that play in the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada: Major League Baseball (MLB), Major League Soccer (MLS), the National Basketball Association (NBA), the National Football League (NFL), the National Hockey League (NHL), and the Canadian Football League (CFL).
Australasian National League, anti-Labor alliance founded 1896; Indian National League, formed in 1994 and currently part of the Left Democratic Front; Irish National League, founded by Charles Parnell in 1882 and dissolved in 1900; National League (Poland, 1893) (Liga Narodowa), a Polish right-wing political organisation that disbanded in 1928