17 Facts About Major League Baseball

Major League Baseball is a professional baseball organization and the oldest major professional sports league in the world.

Major League Baseball games are broadcast on television, radio, and the Internet throughout North America and in several other countries.

In 1993, the National Major League Baseball expanded with two teams, the Florida Marlins and the Colorado Rockies, to even up the number of teams in both leagues.

In 2020, the National Major League Baseball used the designated hitter rule for the first time.

In 1969, the Special Baseball Records Committee of Major League Baseball officially recognized six major leagues: the National League, American League, American Association, Union Association, Players' League, and Federal League .

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In December 2020, Major League Baseball announced its recognition of seven leagues within Negro league baseball as major leagues, and in 2021, baseball reference website Baseball-Reference.

Major League Baseball owners cut their rosters from 25 men to 23 men, and even the best players took pay cuts.

Major League Baseball selected Jackie Robinson from a list of promising Negro league players.

The American Major League Baseball added the Seattle Pilots and the Kansas City Royals.

In 1973, the American Major League Baseball, which had been suffering from much lower attendance than the National Major League Baseball, sought to increase scoring even further by initiating the designated hitter rule.

In 2019, Major League Baseball opened an investigation into allegations that members of the 2017 World Series champion Houston Astros stole signs from opposing teams using technology during the 2017 and 2018 seasons.

Not counting the short-lived Federal Major League Baseball, Montreal is the only city granted an MLB franchise since 1901 that does not currently, since 2004, host a team.

Major League Baseball uniform is a type of uniform worn by baseball players, and by some non-playing personnel, such as field managers and coaches.

The All-Star Game features a team of players from the American Major League Baseball —led by the manager of the previous AL World Series team—and a team of players from the National Major League Baseball, similarly managed, in an exhibition game.

The National Major League Baseball did not win an All-Star game and thus gain a home-field advantage until 2010; it was able to overcome this disadvantage and win in three of the seven World Series from 2003 to 2009.

Mitchell acknowledged that his "tight relationship with Major League Baseball left him open to criticism", but he said that readers who examine the report closely "will not find any evidence of bias, of special treatment of the Red Sox".

Major League Baseball has an exclusive rights deal with XM Satellite Radio, which includes the channel MLB Network Radio and live play-by-play of all games.