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One hundred fifty years ago, on Feb. 2, 1876, in a presumably smoke-filled room at the Grand Central Hotel in New York, the National League was born.
William Hulbert, an officer for the Chicago White Stockings, met with representatives from other teams and formed what was officially titled the National League of Professional Baseball Clubs. The new league was not the first professional league, but rather an outgrowth of the National Association of Baseball Players, which existed from 1871 to 1875. (That league was a loose affiliation of clubs that had problems with competitive balance -- the…
