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	[Scott Tribble] Publications - Baseball
		On the players' end, Cal Ripken, in eclipsing Lou Gehrig's mark of 2,130 consecutive games played, brought important positive press to baseball in the wake of its 1994 players' strike; Ripken's fortitude and passion for the game was a welcome relief for fans disillusioned by the image of selfish players concerned primarily with monetary returns.
		Baseball successfully weathered the storm created by the "Black Sox" scandal, as it came to be known, thanks in large part to the emergence of a new hero who brought the public focus back to the playing field, capturing the American imagination and generating excitement of mythic proportions.
		Players also gained unprecedented power in the latter half of the twentieth century and, with it, astronomical salaries that did much to dampen public enthusiasm for their heroes.
	www.stribble.com /showarticle.asp?ID=2 (2317 words)

	Flood v. Kuhn
		National Football League, 352 U.S. was a civil Clayton Act case testing the application of the antitrust laws to professional football.
		National League, 259 U.S. was a suit for treble damages instituted by a member of the Federal League (Baltimore) against the National and American Leagues and others.
		Ewing, 42 F. centers in the uniformity of player contracts; the confinement of the player to the club that has him under the contract; the assignability of the player's contract; and the ability of the club annually to renew the contract unilaterally, subject to a stated salary minimum.
	www.law.pitt.edu /madison/contracts/supplement/flood_v_kuhn.htm (4682 words)

	baseball. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		The Major League Baseball Players’ Association, formed in 1966, pushed for an end to the reserve clause, a contractual stipulation that bound a player to one club unless he was traded, released, or retired.
		Integration became a fact of baseball life so quickly that by the mid-1950s there were more African-American players on major league teams than there had been in the Negro leagues at their height of popularity just a decade earlier.
		Financial hardships, gambling-related scandals, and franchise upheaval plagued all the leagues, and a players’ revolt in 1890, which resulted in a short-lived Players Association, weakened the National League.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ba/baseball.html (1400 words)

	The Economic History of Baseball
		The formation of the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players in 1871 created a different level of competition for baseball players. The professional organization, which originally included nine teams, broke away from the National Association of Base Ball Players, which used amateur players.
		Baseball has been about profits since the first admission fee was charged. The first professional league, the National Association, founded in 1871, charged a $10 franchise fee. The latest teams to join MLB, paid $130 million apiece for the privilege in 1998.
		One important source of the tax advantage of owning a franchise comes from the ability to depreciate player salaries. In 1935 the IRS ruled that baseball teams could depreciate the value of their player contracts. This is an anomaly since labor is not a depreciating asset.
	www.eh.net /graphics/encyclopedia/haupert.mlb.final.htm (454 words)

	baseball, life expectancy
		The National Association of Professional Baseball Players was formed in 1871.
		I wanted to examine life expectancies for professional baseball players, so it seemed the proper reference was for those who had escaped the perils of infancy at that time, 20-year-old males.
		Relating the graph to what was happening in baseball requires shifting the axis about 20 years, the age around which most players made their debut (Hugh Duffy was 1888.477 - 1866.903 = 21.574 years of age at his debut).
	www.ac.wwu.edu /~stephan/webstuff/es.19thBB.html (1358 words)

	Major League Baseball : History : Commissioners
		The American and National Leagues were established as major leagues and all other associations comprised the minor leagues, which fell under the jurisdiction of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues.
		Since baseball's beginnings in the mid-19th century, the governance of the game has evolved from an ineffective alliance of players known as the National Association to a central figure with considerable powers called the Commissioner.
		National League President A. Bartlett Giamatti was elected baseball's seventh Commissioner on September 8, 1988, by a unanimous vote of the 26 club owners.
	mlb.mlb.com /NASApp/mlb/mlb/history/mlb_history_people.jsp?story=com (2233 words)

	National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues (NAPBL) Begins As A Reaction (p.2) - History - Minor League Sports - MLN Sports Zone - A Minor League News Magazine
		At the center of it all is the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues which has evolved with time to be the heart of minor league baseball,.
		Currently, Minor League Baseball accounts for approximately 73% of professional baseball.
		The NA celebrated a hundred years of minor league baseball in 2002, but that anniversary will technically arrive around 2031, when formal affiliation became the rule of the day.
	www.minorleaguenews.com /history/baseball/2005/04/06/02.html (649 words)

	National Association - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		See also National Association of Professional Baseball Players
		A National Association is a national bank; the name is a required part of the distinguishing legal title of a national bank, as in "Bank of America, N.A."
		This page was last modified 20:42, 15 August 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/National_Association (72 words)

	1880's Baseball
		This led to the forming of the National Association of Professional Baseball Players in 1871.
		Baseball turned into a spectator sport, and was on the road to becoming a national pastime.
		A baseball club was formed in Corinne in March of 1870.
	www.nps.gov /gosp/research/bbhistory.html (1045 words)

	National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues (NAPBL) Begins As A Reaction - History - Minor League Sports - MLN Sports Zone - A Minor League News Magazine
		The NA is the second large scale professional association of baseball organizations, and the second longest consistently operating organization in professional baseball outside of the National League.
		There were many other professional leagues that sprang up over the close of the 1800s that were looking for their place in the baseball landscape.
		The first National Association was plagued with drunkenness, rowdyism, and, in spite of attempts to clean up their act, corruption from gambling.
	www.minorleaguenews.com /history/baseball/2005/04/06/01.html (1016 words)

	The History of Keokuk, Iowa Baseball
		1875- National Association of Professional Baseball Players - Keokuk’s first professional baseball team was in this league.
		The National Association became the National League in 1876, although Keokuk did not become a part of it.
		The most notable figure of this team, and of all baseball in Keokuk, was Roger Maris.
	keokuk-ia.com /baseball (1841 words)

	Atlanta Braves : History : The Story of the Braves
		Two months later, the Red Stockings became one of nine charter members of the National Association of Professional Baseball Players and the forerunner of the National League.
		By 1912, Boston's National League franchise had come to be known as the Braves and was slowly emerging from a decade of poor performance.
		After the struggles of the mid- and late 1980s, Atlanta baseball fans were ready for a winner and the Braves delivered in the 1990s.
	atlanta.braves.mlb.com /NASApp/mlb/atl/history/story_of_the_braves.jsp (671 words)

	MLB Historical Trivia and Quizzes
		National Association of Professional Baseball Players, to 1875
		Official post-season play-offs were held from 1884 to 1890, between the National League and the American Association, and the modern-day World Series began in 1903.
		This is a quiz on the history of New York baseball.
	www.funtrivia.com /quizzes/sports/baseball/mlb_historical.html (563 words)

	base_ball.html
		This new focus on professionalism led to the formation of the National Association of of Professional Baseball Players (NAPBBP) in 1871.
		Salaries were not commensurate with the growth of professional baseball.
		Other professional clubs formed, and in the years that followed attention turned from the amateur game, while it was still popular, to professional clubs.
	www.bgsu.edu /departments/acs/1890s/baseball/base_ball.html (1335 words)

	National Association of Base Ball Players
		The new league-- the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players, consisted of Wright's Boston Red Stockings, the Chicago White Stockings, Philadelphia Athletics, New York Mutuals, Washington Olympics, Troy Haymakers, Fort Wayne Kekiongas, Cleveland Forest Citys, and the Rockford Forest Citys.
		However, by mid-1870s, with a burgeoning population and a railroad network throughout the northeast, a professional league with a fixed schedule was feasible.
		The National Association was riddled with problems from the outset.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~HYPER/INCORP/baseball/napbbp.html (215 words)

	In America and Japan
		The Major League Baseball Players' Association was formed in 1966, and one of the first things it tackled was the player’s movements with teams throughout the 1970s.
		Baseball is a cultural tradition that does have the ability to change the way some people live their lives.
		Still, the players are almost expected to bring excitement to the game and if a player doesn’t dive for the ball or block home plate on a close play he actually could be looked down upon by his teammates in the American leagues.
	www.personal.psu.edu /users/p/m/pmg149/cas471termpaper.htm (4040 words)

	First Baseball Teams and Leagues
		The National Association of Baseball players (NABBP) became the National Association Of Professional Baseball Players (NAPBBP) in 1871 and was made up of 10 different teams that played throughout the country.
		The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs or National League was formed in 1876.
		During the Civil War Union soldiers from New York brought the Knickerbocker style of baseball to the towns that their army units were stationed in.
	www.gottaaskyourmom.com /baseball/first-teams-leagues.html (234 words)

	Clem's Baseball ~ 19th Century Major Leagues
		Two years later, the National Association of Professional Baseball Players was formed.
		The first true professional baseball organization was the National League, founded in 1876.
		Both the Union Association and the Players League were founded largely as an attempt to defeat the exclusive rights to players enjoyed by National League and American Association franchises.
	www.andrewclem.com /Baseball/19thCentury_Leagues.html (1029 words)

	1800s.html
		The Cincinnati Red Stockings were the first professional baseball team, beginning in 1869, and by 1871 the National Association of Professional Baseball Players (NAPBP) had formed.
		There was no real distinction between players and owners in the NAPBP, and it wasn't until the formation of the National League of Professional Baseball Clubs (NL) in 1876 that there was a clear separation of the roles of players and owners.
		The history of the reserve clause in professional baseball dates back to the 1800's, almost to the start of the game.
	www.cbaforfans.com /1800s.html (566 words)

	New Jersey Sports Teams of the Past
		Elizabeth, NJ's baseball team in the National Association of Professional Baseball Players (predecessor of the National League) in 1873 at Waverly Fairgrounds.
		Minor league baseball team in the International League from 1916 through 1949 (became the Akron Numatics for the 1920 season, and moved to Providence briefly in 1925).
		Atlantic City's baseball team in the Eastern Colored League from 1923 to 1928, and the American Negro League in 1929.
	www.titans101.com /njpast.htm (1052 words)

	washington baseball club : heritage detail
		But while his Olympics had bitten the dust, Nick Young wasn't finished by a long shot, carving himself a substantial place in baseball history by overhauling the Association charter to eliminate its unworkable parts and drawing up a new constitution for the National League of Professional Baseball Clubs, the very beginning of "major league" baseball.
		The National League had decided to pare its roster from twelve teams to eight, and despite their team's perennially losing ways, it was hard for the loyal local fandom to accept being abandoned.
		That was the end for the Olympics, while the Nationals managed to field teams with woeful records in 1873 and, after a year's hiatus, 1875.
	www.baseballindc.com /history/heritage_aug02.asp (476 words)

	Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Magazine / In the Beginning
		But the team became professional baseball's first dynasty by winning four consecutive championships in a league known as the National Association of Professional Baseball Players.
		A brilliant and innovative baseball mind, Wright would be regarded by many as the father of professional baseball.
		Boston's dominance over the National Association, which seemed to increase each year, turned out to be partially responsible for the league's demise as it gave way to the new National League in early 1876.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/magazine/articles/2004/12/19/in_the_beginning (930 words)

	The Baseball Glove Comes to Baseball, 1875
		In 1871 the National Association of Professional Baseball Players was formed and at its peak, consisted of thirteen teams.
		In these early days of baseball, players were expected to take the field without benefit of protective equipment such as a baseball glove or catcher's mask.
		In 1884 the rival American League was founded and the era of modern professional baseball was begun.
	www.eyewitnesstohistory.com /baseball.htm (749 words)

	finalpaper.htm
		The National Association of Professional Baseball Players was established in 1871 (Peterson 17), which was replaced by the first major league, The National League, in 1876 (Baseball, The Color Line and Jackie Robinson).
		Believing that black players would eventually be included in white professional baseball, the new League of Colored Baseball Clubs was formed, in 1887, to serve as a “feeder” for the major leagues.
		Riley, James A. “History of Black Baseball and the Negro Baseball Leagues”.
	web.ics.purdue.edu /~bhouse/finalpaper.htm (4639 words)

	All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Players Association News & Announcements
		The following are trademarks of the All American Girls Professional Baseball League Players Association, Inc: All American Girls Professional Baseball League, All American Girls Baseball League, All American Girls Softball League, the AAGPBL shield logo, the team names & nicknames, and the image of a female baseball player in a skirted uniform.
		Rob has worked in the past with major league baseball and minor league teams and has spent much of his time the past 3 years helping women develop baseball in their communities all around the US.
		His efforts brought over 60 women players to the MLB training facility, Electric Park to play in a record-setting 24 hour marathon game of baseball to raise money for the African relief effort to save unborn babies infected with the AIDS virus.
	www.aagpbl.org /association/news.cfm (442 words)

	The National Club Baseball Association -- Official Site
		The NCBA is proud to announce Richardson as the Official Baseball Cap of the NCBA through the the 2008 Season.
		The NCBA is proud to announce Demarini as the official Baseball Bat of the NCBA through the 2008 season.
		The NCBA is proud to announce A.D. Starr as the Official Baseball Supplier of the NCBA through the the 2008 Season.
	www.clubbaseball.org (450 words)

	Timeline: 1870-1879
		The first professional baseball association, the National Association of Professional Baseball Players, is organized.
		Yellowstone National Park is established for the enjoyment of the public.
		A fire destroys the city of Chicago, Illinois.
	www.hfmgv.org /education/smartfun/timeline/1800/1870.html (286 words)

	Minor League Baseball: Home
		Minor League Baseball trademarks and copyrights are the property of Minor League Baseball.
		Jeff Culpepper of the Cubs organization talks about his success and interests after baseball.
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	www.minorleaguebaseball.com /app/index.jsp (108 words)

	History WORKS II Timeline
		National Association of Professional Baseball Players is established
		The National Association of Baseball Players is formed
		Ned Cothbyrd steals the first stolen base in baseball history.
	www.historyworksohio.org /HWII/timeline/timeline_detail.cfm?start=1800&end=1899 (275 words)

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