The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs, known simply as the National League, is the older of two leagues constituting Major League Baseball in the United States and Canada, and the world's
Shea Stadium prior to the start of a New York Mets game in 2008. In its final season before the Mets moved to Citi Field, Shea had the best attendance in the National League that year, drawing over 53,000 fans per game on average.
Morgan Bulkeley, the first president of the National League
The Los Angeles Dodgers are an American professional baseball team based in Los Angeles. The Dodgers compete in Major League Baseball as a member club of the National League West Division. One of the
National League (baseball)
…the NL, which became known legally for the next decade as the "National League and American Association". The teams now known as the Cincinnati Reds, Los Angeles Dodgers (originally Brooklyn) and Pittsburgh Pirates (as well as the now-defunct Cleveland Spiders) had already switched from the AA to the NL prior to 1892…
The 1889 Brooklyn Bridegrooms, who won the American Association pennant before the club joined the National League the following year.
The first game played at Ebbets Field, an exhibition against the Yankees on April 5, 1913.
Jackie Robinson, who grew up in Pasadena, California, broke baseball's color barrier in 1947 with the Brooklyn Dodgers
Former Dodger greats who played in both Brooklyn and Los Angeles adorn the exterior of Dodger Stadium.