Baseball

Baseball has been around since the 19th century and is well known as America's favorite pastime. The Cincinnati Reds are the oldest team in the majors at well over a century old. Many of the greatest venues of all time have come and gone. Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, Candlestick Park in San Francisco. Even the great Shea Stadium in Queens is long gone. Teams move, times change, stadiums wear out. Other modern developments include the designated hitter and interleague. The DH rule introduced the concept of a substitute batter replacing the pitcher, but only the American League adopted it. Interleague was experimented with beginning in 1998 and fully implemented in 2002. The AL and NL teams could finally play eachother outside the World Series. For years the NL had one extra team due to scheduling issues, the Brewers joining to solve the problem. When the issues were resolved the Astros joined the AL to even things up, much to the chagrin of people who wanted the Brewers to go back to the AL.