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Typed up over numerous days/months by ^Nemisis^ -- Please keep in mind this is not the 
entire manual.

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The Birth Of Baseball.
Over the years, several different origins for baseball have been proposed.  The most 
common one goes with a game Abner Doubleday devised in Cooperstown, New York, in 
1839.  Doubleday laid out a field with the dimensions we still use today, and organized 
the cadets of the military academy he commanded into the two teams.  Unfortunately, all 
the main features of baseball are recorded in an English book published in 1828, and a 
primitive version of the game appears in a book from 1744.

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The Amateur Game.
Baseball was played by amateurs in localized areas until 1867, when the Washington 
D.C. Nationals toured as far west as St. Louis.  This expansion of operations put a strain 
on the players, and in 1869 the Cincinnati team began to receive a regular salary.  They 
toured from New York to San Francisco and didn't lose a game until the middle of 1870.  
Other teams followed their lead, and in 1871 the National Association of Professional 
Baseball Players was organized.

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The First Pro Teams.
The National Association of Professional Baseball Players included the Philadelphia 
Athletics and the Chicago White Stockingsas well as the Brooklyn Eckfords, the Fort 
Wayne (Indiana) Kekiongas, the Cleveland Forest Citys, and the Rockford (Illinois) 
Forest Citys (okay, so they weren't all that creative!).  Neither were they all that 
professional; the Eckfords, Kekiongas, and Rockford FCs lasted just one year, and the 
whole association went out of existence after five, to be replaced by the National League 
of Professional Base Ball Clubsthe National League we know today.

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The Pro Leagues.
The National League of Professional Base Ball Clubs, formed in 1876, included the 
Philadelphia A's and teams from New York, Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Hartford, 
Louisville, and St. Louis.  In 1882, teams from cities not in the National League formed 
the American Association, and in 1891, the two groups merged.  Another league, the 
Western League, sprang up in 1893; it was this that would later become what we call the 
American League.  This league refused to merge with the Nationals, and eventually 
became its rival.

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The First World Series.
At the end of the nineteenth century, war between the National and American Leagues 
raged hot and heavy.  Teams jumped from city to city, and so did the players.  In one 
instance, a Western League team moved to Chicago and called itself the White Sox, 
despite the fact that a descendent of the old Chicago White Stockings was still there.  But, 
peace came in 1903.  Both leagues were accorded equal importance, and the cities they 
occupied were stabilized; that year saw that first World Series, in which the Boston Red 
Sox beat the Pittsburgh Pirates, five games to three.

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Upheavals.
As noted earlier, baseball teams stayed where they were after the National and American 
Leagues settled their differences in 1903.  But exactly 50 years later, things began to 
change.  First, the Boston Braves moved to Milwaukee; then the St. Louis Browns moved 
to Baltimore and became the Orioles.  In 1955 the Philadelphia A's became the Kansas 
City A's, and in 1958 the New York Giants went to San Francisco and the Brooklyn 
Dodgers went to Los Angeles.  In 1961 the Washington Senators became the Minnesota 
Twins.

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Expansion.
Major League expansion began in 1961, when the American League chartered the Los 
Angeles Angels and a new Washington Senators team.  The following year the National 
League added the New York Mets and the Houston Colt .45s (in 1964 the Colt .45s 
changed their name to the Astros).  But the 60s continued to be a volatile period, with the 
LA Angels moving to Anaheim to become the California Angels (1965), the Milwaukee 
Braves moving again, this time to Atlanta (1966), and the Kansas City Athletics moving 
again, this time to Oakland (1968).

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Reorganization.
By now there were ten teams in each league, which led to a lot of also-ran clubs.  So in 
1969, the leagues reorganized.  Each divided itself into two decisions, each originated a 
League Championship Series-- and each added two more teams.  The National League 
brought on board the San Diego Padres and the Montreal Expos (the first foreign team), 
the American League started up the Kansas City Royals and the Seattle Pilots (which, 
after only one year, became the Milwaukee Brewers). In 1972, the second Washington 
Senators became the Texas Rangers.

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The DH.
In 1973, the American League took a bold step forward by introducing the designated 
hitter (DH).  A glaring weakness in the game had always been the pitcher at the plate: a 
man who bats less than one-fifth as often as his teammates is almost always an easy out, 
so many rallies die aborning.  On the other hand, men who have batted well for their 
entire careers, but whose legs have grown too old to play the field still have a lot to offer 
the sport.  Though conservatives denounced it, the DH rule has been a fan favorite from 
the word go.

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Cy Young.
The first superstar player in the game, the man whose name still defines pitching, was Cy 
Young.  He started with the National League's Cleveland Spiders in 1890, and in nine 
seasons went 239-134.  In 1899 he joined the St. Louis Perfectors (in 1900 they became 
the Cardinals), and in those two seasons was 46-33.  In 1901 he joined the American 
League's Boston Somersets and stayed through 1908 (while his team became first the 
Pilgrims and then the Red Sox), going 193-112.  When he retired in 1911, he'd won more 
games (511) than any pitcher before or since.

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Superstars.
The first two "superstars" of the present leagues were managers:  Connie Mack 
(Cornelius McGillicuddy) of the Philadelphia A's, who took over the team when it 
shifted to the American League in 1901, and John J. McGraw of the National League's 
New York Giants, who took control of his club in 1902.  Over the first quarter of the 
twentieth century, both led their clubs to a long series of championships, and this, 
combined with the all the teams staying put, caused fan appreciation to grow 
dramatically.

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Ty Cobb.
The first superstar batter was Ty Cobb.  He joined the Detroit Tigers in 1905 and spent 22 
seasons with them, the last six of which he performed as player/manager (he then spent 
two more years with the ubiquitous A's).  Ty Cobb's records for games played (3.033), 
hits made (4,191), and bases stolen (892) stood for decades; his records for runs scored 
(2,245) and career batting average (.367) have never been surpassed.

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Scandal!
Modern-day baseball hit its first serious snag with the infamous "Black Sox" scandal in 
1919 World Series.  Eight members of the losing club, the Chicago White Sox, were 
accused of throwing the series for gamblers.  A jury of their peers found them innocent, 
but the commissioner did not agree and banned them from baseball.  Fortunately, a new 
hero was coming up in the game, and this diverted the public's attention.  His name was 
Babe Ruth.


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The Babe.
Babe Ruth began his career with Baltimore in 1914 but went to the Red Sox later that 
season.  In 1920 he went to the Yankees, and stayed there until 1934.  Between 1918 and 
1931 he led the American League in home runs 12 times, hit at least 40 homers eleven 
times, and hit over 50 four times.  His record of 60 in the 154 games of the 1927 season 
still stands (due to this outdated manual it is not updated, the record no longer still stands 
actually  Nem.).  But before he concentrated on slugging he was a pitcher, and his 
proudest achievement was the 29 2/3 scoreless innings he pitched across two World 
Series.

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The Finishing Touches.
Pushing onward, the American League unilaterally added two more teams in 1977.  
Seattle got a team that stayed put, the Mariners, and Canada got its second team-- the 
Toronto Blue Jays.  The National League has promised that the early 90s will see two 
new teams on its side, and the question seems to be whether they will go to cities who 
had teams and lost them, or to new cities which have grown large enough to feel entitled 
to their share of the action.  Either way, there will be actionbecause, hey we're talkin' 
baseball!

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