Baseball’s Timelines
February 25, 2005
Baseball is a game steeped in history. That’s part of the fun of the game. That’s why I created my historical baseball graphs—to help people better understand and appreciate what’s happened in baseball’s past.
History has been presented on timelines for several hundred years now. One of the better-known early timelines was this one, created by Joseph Priestley in 1765:
You can click here for a larger version of the timeline. Hopefully, you can see the power of a timeline from this early example, with which you can see how the lives of famous people (at least, famous people in the 1700’s) overlapped with each other.
Now, let’s talk baseball. I often get confused about the early years of baseball, and which present-day teams relate to teams from the past. For instance, the New York Yankees began their existence in Baltimore—and they weren’t called the Yankees until the early 1910’s.
Thankfully, Alex Reisner developed a baseball timeline that handles this for you. Here’s a small version of the National League:
Can’t really read that, right? Sorry. I suggest you get the American League and National League timelines directly from Alex’s site in this PDF file.
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