Sentences with phrase «modern game of baseball»

Doubleday's friend, Abner Graves's, testimony convinced the Mills Commission that the modern game of baseball began on the playing fields of Cooperstown.

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Before the modern era of baseball (since 1901) Cleveland (in N.L.) won only 20 of 154 games in 1899.

Whit Stillman is a director fascinated by the idea of people gladly displaced from their own time: foppish debutantes abide by romantic era courting rituals in»90s Manhattan in Metropolitan; a good old limbo contest trumps modern jazz in Barcelona; and lovers of disco music band together while boxes of wax platters are torched at baseball games in The Last Days of Disco.

The championship games of 1903 are considered baseball's first (modern - day) World Series.

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