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1877 - International Association (minor baseball league) organizes.

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1887 - First minor league baseball association organizes (Pittsburgh).

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1903 - Nick Young remains as National League president as AG Spalding ends challenge.

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1912 - Argentina beat the MCC in their inaugural cricket first-class fixture.

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1927 - Golfers in South Carolina arrested for violating Sabbath.

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1929 - Boston Red Sox announce they will play Sunday games at Braves Field.

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1930 - Capelle soccer team forms.

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1943 - Phil Wrigley and B Rickey charter All-American Girls Softball League.

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1953 - August A Busch buys the Saint Louis Cardinals for US$3.75 million.

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1953 - US Court of Appeals rules that Organized Baseball is a sport and not a business, affirming the 25-year-old Supreme Court ruling.

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