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The Canadian Football League (CFL), a much smaller league (9 teams), was founded in 1958 and is popular in Canada. All six of these leagues draw 15,000 or more fans in attendance per game on average as of 2015. This list includes a ranking by teams in the Big Four (B4) and a separate ranking including MLS and CFL teams called the Big Six (B6).
The first Major League Baseball team in Canada was the Montreal Expos, who began play in 1969. In 2005, they moved to Washington, D.C., and became the Washington Nationals. The Toronto Blue Jays, who began play in 1977, became the first team outside the United States to win the World Series in 1992 and 1993.
The first line is the formation of the National League (NL) in 1876, and the second is the transformation of the American League (AL) to a major league in 1901. The third line is the beginning of the expansion era in 1961.
The prestigious award is given to Minor League Baseball's top organization. It was the first time that a Canadian-based franchise won MiLB's top award. [7] In 2016, the Canadians led the Northwest League with a total attendance of 222,363, averaging 6,177 per game. [8]
Major League Baseball (MLB), the highest level of professional baseball in the United States and Canada, has undergone several rounds of expansion beginning in 1961, eventually reaching 30 teams with its most recent expansion taking place in 1998. MLB has discussed preparations for another round of expansion.
In December 2020, Major League Baseball announced its recognition of seven leagues within Negro league baseball as major leagues: the first and second Negro National Leagues (1920–1931 and 1933–1948), the Eastern Colored League (1923–1928), the American Negro League (1929), the East–West League (1932), the Negro Southern League (1932 ...
The PHF had played since 2015, originally as the National Women's Hockey League, and was the first professional women's hockey league in North America. After the PHF's 2022–23 season, the league was purchased by a group led by investor Mark Walter and tennis great Billie Jean King , and was shut down to make way for the PWHL.
Throughout the first half of the 20th century, Boston, St. Louis, and Philadelphia also had two baseball franchises, but one team from each city moved in the 1950s, while the San Francisco Bay Area had two teams from 1968 until 2024. New York had three teams until two moved in 1958.