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	Sports Adventure
		You can even pinpoint dates, from 1869 (the invention of baseball) to 1996 (Olympic hopefuls), on the horizontal time line.
		Although far from photographic in quality, the photos are fast-loading and attractive, culled from such sources as Sports Illustrated and the Baseball Hall of Fame.
		Category buttons at the top allow users to jump right into their favorite sport: baseball, basketball, football, hockey, tennis, golf, or boxing, or the Olympics.
	www.atarimagazines.com /compute/issue144/100_Sports_Adventure.php (649 words)

	The News-Herald - National Sports
		-------- 1869 - The Cincinnati Red Stockings, baseball's first professional team, was formed.
		That astonishing jump of 29 feet, 2 1/2 inches, called by many the greatest feat in sports history, will eclipse the old record by 21 1/4 inches and hold up for more than 20 years.
		Stars of the first baseball team were centerfielder Harry Wright, baseball's first professional baseball player and his brother shortstop, George.
	www.zwire.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=14147714&BRD=1698&PAG=740&dept_id=352954&rfi=6 (511 words)

	Recreation & Sports, Sports, Baseball,
		This ring is for everyone who likes baseball, and to link together some great baseball sites from all over the internet.
		Sponsored by CommonsForKids.com, A webring with a variety of baseball player sites, including fan pages, collector pages and sports card sites.
		If you have a sports releated website we would be happy to add you to our webring
	dir.webring.com /rw?d=Recreation___Sports/Sports/Baseball (994 words)

	Sports Encyclopedia
		In 1869, the Cincinnati Red Stockings became the first professional team when they began paying all their players.
		In 1992, baseball was made an official medal sport in the Summer Olympics.
		However, the baseball owners, fearing that the game was in danger of being destroyed, hired the sport's first commissioner, a tough judge named Kenesaw Mountain Landis, to clean things up.
	learning.turner.com /efts/bball/bbencyl.htm (7532 words)

	About the Cincinnati Vintage Base Ball Clubs
		In 1869, as base ball became more popular and competitive, the Red Stockings under the leadership of captain Harry Wright (who is enshrined in the National Baseball Hall of Fame) decided to put all of the players under contract, thus creating the first professional team.
		The 1869 club was the first of its kind, all the players were paid to play base ball.
		In 1869, a fair ball had to be caught in the air, just like the current game.
	www.1869reds.com /about.htm (1558 words)

	Sports timeline
		1869 in sports - The original Cincinnati Red Stockings, baseball's first openly all-professional team, was founded.
		1919 in sports - Black Sox scandal in baseball
		1994 in sports - World Series cancelled after player strike; Roland Ratzenberger dies during qualifying for the San Marino Grand Prix at the Villeneuve corner and Ayrton Senna dies at the Tamburello corner during the race.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/S/Sports-timeline.htm (2145 words)

	Cleveland Ohio Sports & Recreaction - Cleveland Ohio - Convention & Visitors Bureau - CVB
		Professional baseball began in Cleveland, July 2, 1869, with the Cleveland Forest Citys vs. the Cincinnati Red Stockings.
		From baseball and football to basketball, hockey and soccer, professional sports action can be found year-round.
		Cleveland is a big-league sports town with a big-league sports attitude.
	www.travelcleveland.com /Media_Center/City_Profile/sports_rec.asp (2354 words)

	Historic Hancock
		This sports team photo, the oldest yet found for Hancock, is labeled as the 1868 Hancock First National Baseball Team, with member identifications given as follows: [lower row, L-R]: Jas.
		Information about 1868 and 1869 sports is sketchy, as a disastrous fire in 1869 wiped out a major part of Hancock.
		The Hancock Club toured the Upper Peninsula in 1871, becoming the U.P. baseball Champions, in the process, for that year.
	www.cityofhancock.com /historic30.html (132 words)

	1994 baseball strike - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		For the first time since 1869, there was no national professional baseball champion.
		The 1994 baseball strike resulted in the cancellation of the World Series for the first time in 90 years.
		On January 18, 1994, the owners approved a new revenue-sharing plan keyed to a salary cap, which required the players’ approval.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1994_baseball_strike (1809 words)

	World Almanac for Kids
		Professional baseball was introduced in 1869 by the Cincinnati Red Stockings, a club that had been organized on an amateur basis three years earlier.
		Baseball is played by amateurs of all ages, including numerous sandlot clubs and athletic associations, virtually every high school and college in the U.S., and scores of junior leagues.
		Among the earliest games to be played professionally in the U.S., baseball is also the most popular; it daily attracts crowds of fans to parks and stadiums where it is played, is followed by millions more over radio and television, and is reported extensively in almost every newspaper in the country.
	www.worldalmanacforkids.com /explore/sports/baseball.html (1809 words)

	Science of Baseball: The Girls of Summer
		The first team of professional baseball players, the Cincinnati Red Stockings, took the field in 1869.
		The first girls of summer, women who were paid to play baseball competed in their first game in 1875.
		Most of the names and deeds and records in baseball have been set by men.
	www.exploratorium.edu /baseball/girlsofsummer.html (166 words)

	Science of Baseball: The Girls of Summer
		The first team of professional baseball players, the Cincinnati Red Stockings, took the field in 1869.
		The first girls of summer, women who were paid to play baseball competed in their first game in 1875.
		Most of the names and deeds and records in baseball have been set by men.
	www.exploratorium.edu /baseball/girlsofsummer.html (166 words)

	DVD Talk Forum - Cooperstown not the home of baseball?
		Historian John Thorn was doing research on the origins of baseball when he found a reference to the bylaw in an 1869 book on Pittsfield's history.
		The long-accepted story of baseball's origins centers around Cooperstown, N.Y., where Doubleday is said to have come up with the rules for the modern game.
		Seeing as how he was very influential in the baseball world, his word become "the truth" and has perpetuated a myth that still exists to this day.
	www.dvdtalk.com /forum/printthread.php?t=363598 (968 words)

	Science of Baseball: The Girls of Summer
		The first team of professional baseball players, the Cincinnati Red Stockings, took the field in 1869.
		The first girls of summer, women who were paid to play baseball competed in their first game in 1875.
		Most of the names and deeds and records in baseball have been set by men.
	www.exploratorium.edu /baseball/girlsofsummer.html (166 words)

	Back, back, back ... go baseball origins The San Diego Union-Tribune
		"It's clear that not only was baseball played here in 1791, but it was rampant," said historian John Thorn, who was researching the origins of baseball when he found a reference to the law in an 1869 book on Pittsfield's history.
		City officials and historians released a document Tuesday that they say shows baseball was being played in Pittsfield, Mass., in the late 1700s, long before legend credits Abner Doubleday with drawing up the rules of the game.
		The document – dug out of an archive vault at library in Pittsfield – is the earliest known written reference to baseball, predating the next known documentation of the game by three decades.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20040513/news_lz1s13gallry.html (498 words)

	Teacher Resources - Collection - Jackie Robinson and Baseball Highlights, 1860s-1960s
		Early baseball images include an 1869 illustration of the first nine of the Cincinnati Red Stockings base ball club, which presents formal portraits of players in ties and jackets surrounding an image of a single man in the Red Stockings uniform.
		Baseball stadiums often serve as a recreation and entertainment center in the heart of an urban area.
		Baseball Beginnings" from "Early Baseball Pictures, 1860s-1920s" provides additional images of this era and discusses traditions such as the President of the United States throwing out the first pitch on opening day.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/ndlpedu/collections/jr/file.html (4342 words)

	BIOPROJ.SABR.ORG :: The Baseball Biography Project.
		Harry Wright dropped out of public school at the age of 14, in 1849, to apprentice as a jeweler at Tiffany's and the next year join the Dragonslayers, on which his father was the star and idol of cricket circles and would continue to play for the team until 1869.
		Wright was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1953 by the Veterans Committee, much later than his brother (1937), and much longer than many thought that he should have had to wait.
		Wright took the team name and several of its players to Boston in the new National Association (NA), the first professional baseball league.
	bioproj.sabr.org /bioproj.cfm?a=v&v=l&bid=14&pid=15558 (4342 words)

	The Reader's Advisor
		Sam Fowler is taking a train home to San Francisco when, at an unscheduled stop somewhere west of Cleveland, he finds he has been mysteriously transported back to 1869, where he encounters the Cincinnati Red Stockings, baseball's first professional team.
		As superbeings from the end of time struggle for dominance of the universe with aliens from another galaxy, Roger Tyson and other innocent victimes are flung back and forth from past, to present and future.
		To break a curse, Emma Merrigan travels back in time where she faces the possibility that saving those in the future may mean sacrificing those in the past.
	sachem.suffolk.lib.ny.us /advisor/timetravel.htm (2409 words)

	TERRY FAMILY HISTORIAN MARCH 1984
		W. Terry was born in Boonesborough Boone county, Iowa, August 15, 1869, son of Charles and Melissa (Richards) Terry.
		I discovered him with the help of my father, an avid baseball fan, when Bill Terry was pitching for the Toledo (Ohio) Mud Hens.
		The wife of James Terry was the former Mary Anne Hutchenson, daughter of a wealthy Augusta, Ga. family, who it was said, had as her bodyguard an African prince who wore a ring in his nose.
	www.terry-family-historian.com /TFHMAR1984.htm (2409 words)

	Baseball's First Professional Team is Born by Harvey Froomer
		With baseball paying out bigger and bigger salaries and the sport continuing to expand its reach all across America, it is mind-boggling and consciousness-raising to flash back to its simpler times and simple origins as a professional sport, a time of the Cincinnati Red Stockings- baseball's first professional team.
		Other members of the team included Wright’s brother George (a star shortstop), who batted.518, drive in 339 runs and hit 54 home runs in 1869; third baseman Fred Waterman; second baseman Cal Sweasy; outfielders Asa Brainard, Dave Birdsall and Andy Leonard; catcher Doug Allison and pitcher Cal McVey.
		Baseball as a professional sport was now underway.
	www.travel-watch.com /basballborn.htm (2409 words)

	g1869.php
		With a roster of 12 and a payroll of $9,300, Wright turned the Reds of 1869 into the best baseball team in the country.
		By playing as professionals, the Cincinnatians gave baseball a new stature and respectability.
		Doing so also allowed Harry Wright, the club's organizer (who had received $1,200 annually for his organizational and playing talents since 1865) to recruit the best players.
	www.mrbaseball.com /g1869.php (2409 words)

	George Wright National Baseball Hall of Fame
		George Wright was the star shortstop of baseball's first openly all-professional team, the 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings, for whom he hit 49 home runs in 57 games and batted an astounding.633.
		Besides being a feared slugger, Wright was renowned as a superior fielder, revolutionizing play at shortstop.
		"George Wright never had any equal as a fielder, base runner and batsman, combined with heady work of a quality never accredited to any ball tosser.
	www.baseballhalloffame.org /hofers_and_honorees/hofer_bios/Wright_George.htm (2409 words)

	1869 in sports - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		See also: 1868 in sports, other events of 1869, 1870 in sports and the list of 'years in sports'.
		The original Cincinnati Red Stockings, baseball's first openly all-professional team, was founded.
		The Red Stockings won 130 games in a row between 1869 and 1870.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1869_in_sports (78 words)

	NewMexiKen » Sports
		From 1895 to 1900 he coached football and baseball at Alabama Polytechnic Institute, and from 1900 to 1904 was coach at Clemson College.
		Encouraged by the NCAA’s crackdown on Native American–themed sports teams, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has launched a campaign against the “Gamecocks” of Jacksonville State and the University of South Carolina.
		Before the 134th British Open began, one of Tiger Woods’s advisers mentioned to him that if he were to win here on the Old Course, his 10 victories in pro majors and his three U.S. Amateur titles would match Bobby Jones’s total of 13 majors won from 1923 to 1930.
	newmexiken.com /archives/category/sports (5514 words)

	Sports for Kids
		We’re going to discover "glossary of sports terms." Go back to each sport’s Web page and click on "Glossary of Terms." Read them and see if you can match the definition with the correct word.
		This sport became an Olympic event in 1920.
		This sport can have music playing with it.
	dept.houstonisd.org /techlessons/pages/sports.htm (2783 words)

	African Americans in the Sports Arena
		On view are seven major sporting events - boxing, horse racing, cycling, track and field, basketball, baseball, and football- which opened the doors to the expanding Sports Arenas of today.
		The world of sports is such a strong part of the recognizable American fabric that it would be hard to imagine the social, cultural, or political development of this nation without this pastime.
		On the other hand, American sports are filled with records of African American athletes capable of participating in the broad sports arena but not given the chance due to their race.
	www.liu.edu /cwis/cwp/library/aaitsa.htm (14867 words)

	stockings in TutorGig Encyclopedia
		With baseball s inaugural professional team, the Cincinnati Red Stockings in 1869, he batting average batted..
		South Side Park was a baseball stadium that formerly stood in Chicago, Illinois, located at 37th Street and South Princeton Avenue.
		The Boston Red Stockings was a name used by two Boston, Massachusetts Boston baseball teams.
	www.tutorgig.com /es/stockings (14867 words)

	LA Sports History
		The Los Angeles Arena Company announce plans to build Staples Center, a Sports and Entertainment Facility in Downtown Los Angeles that will host the Los Angeles Lakers, Clippers and Kings.
		After 49 years, the Rams move from the Los Angeles area (Anaheim) to St. Louis, becoming the first professional sports team to move from west to east.
		The O'Malley family, long-time owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers and one of the last families to own a Major League Baseball team, sells the franchise to the Fox Group.
	www.laalmanac.com /sports/sp18.htm (1939 words)

	Ivy League Sports
		The YES Network is a 24-hour-a-day, 7-day-a-week premier sports and entertainment television network featuring the 26-time World Champion New York Yankees Major League Baseball team and the Eastern Conference Champion New Jersey Nets, as well as other professional and collegiate sports teams and a wide variety of features (www.yesnetwork.com).
		The YES Network (Yankees Entertainment and Sports LLC) announced a two-year agreement with the Ivy League for the 2003-04 and 2004-05 seasons to produce and televise five football games and six basketball games (including at least one women's game) each year, with a YES option for 2005-06 as well.
		The specific Ivy League basketball games airing on YES will be announced at a later date.
	www.ivyleaguesports.com /article.asp?intID=2749&method=text (1135 words)

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