a milestone for major league baseball
at some point before the end of the season, major league baseball will have played its 200,000th game. the very first game was april 22 1876 between the boston red caps (nee red stockings, then would eventally be the boston/milwaulkee/atlanta braves) vs the philadeplhia athletics (not to confuse them with the american league team that started in philly, then kansas city then oakland). the red caps won 6-5. this was also the first national league game. teams then played a 70 game schedule (philadelphia and the new york mutuals wer forced out both not finishing the full sked). boston finished with a 39-31 record and philly had a 14-45 record. so who will be the 200,000th game and who will win it?
side note: game #100,000 was on july 16 1964 and had the orioles beating the yankees 6-1.
at some point before the end of the season, major league baseball will have played its 200,000th game. the very first game was april 22 1876 between the boston red caps (nee red stockings, then would eventally be the boston/milwaulkee/atlanta braves) vs the philadeplhia athletics (not to confuse them with the american league team that started in philly, then kansas city then oakland). the red caps won 6-5. this was also the first national league game. teams then played a 70 game schedule (philadelphia and the new york mutuals wer forced out both not finishing the full sked). boston finished with a 39-31 record and philly had a 14-45 record. so who will be the 200,000th game and who will win it?
side note: game #100,000 was on july 16 1964 and had the orioles beating the yankees 6-1.
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