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Major League Baseball
Image courtesy of the Barack Obama Presidential Library
Major League Baseball
Image courtesy of the Barack Obama Presidential Library

Major League Baseball

Founded 1903
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Place ActiveNew York, New York, United States
Major League Baseball is an American professional sports league that consists of thirty member baseball teams in the United States and Canada. MLB is composed of the National League (founded 1876) and the American League (founded 1901), which agreed to form the MLB in 1903, but remained separate entities untill 2000.