Major League Baseball is the oldest of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada. MLB also oversees Minor League Baseball, which comprises 256 teams affiliated with the major league clubs. Baseball’s first openly all-professional team was the Cincinnati Red Stockings, who were founded in 1869. MLB is the second wealthiest professional sport league after the National Football League by revenue.
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Major League Baseball is the oldest of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada. MLB also oversees Minor League Baseball, which comprises 256 teams affiliated with the major league clubs. Baseball’s first openly all-professional team was the Cincinnati Red Stockings, who were founded in 1869. MLB has the highest total season attendance of any sports league in the world with more than 69. 6 million spectators in 2018. MLB is the second wealthiest professional sport league after the National Football League by revenue. The league is governed by the Major League Baseball Constitution, which has undergone several incarnations since its creation in 1876. It hires and maintains the sport’s umpiring crews, and negotiates marketing, labor, and television contracts. It owns 67 percent of traditional broadcast media group MLB Network, with other 33 percent split between several cable operators and satellite provider DirecTV. It also has editorial independence from the league, but it is under the same ownership and revenue-sharing plan as the league. It operates out of studios in New Jersey and Secaucus, New Jersey, as well as other locations in the U.S., Canada and Australia. It is based in New York City and has offices in Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago and San Diego, among other locations. It was founded as a legal entity in 1868, and the National League and American League were formed as separate legal entities in1876 and 1901. In 1903, the two leagues cooperated but remained legally separate entities until they merged into a single organization led by the Commissioner of Baseball in 2000.
In 2006, an investigation produced the Mitchell Report, which implicated many players in the use of performance-enhancing substances, including at least one player from each team. In the 1960s, MLB expansion added eight teams, including the first non-U.S. team, the San Francisco Giants. From 1901 to 1960, the American and National Leagues fielded eight teams apiece. In 1970, MLB added two more teams, the New York Yankees and the Tampa Yankees. The National League added two teams in the 1970s and two in the 1980s, the Los Angeles Dodgers and the San Diego Padres. The last attempt at a new major league, the Continental League, was the aborted Continental League in 1960. MLB and the World Baseball Softball Confederation jointly manage the international World Baseball Classic tournament. The World Series is a four-round postseason tournament that culminates in the World Series, a best-of-seven championship series between the two league champions that dates to 1903. It has been played since 1903 and is the only major league to feature a women’s team. The game is played on the same field as the men’s game, with the women’s game on the other side of the ball. It’s played in the same ballpark, the Yankee Stadium, on the East Coast and on the West Coast. MLB maintains a unique, controlling relationship over the sport, including most aspects of Minor League baseball.
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