Speaker 1: Hello, Welcome to the Stupid Instrum Minute. I'm your host,
Speaker 1: Kep Pound. So if you've been listening to this podcast
Speaker 1: for a while, you know that every August I do
Speaker 1: something sports related. Why because I love sports and I'm
Speaker 1: part of a sports podcast called Unfiltered Sports Weekly that
Speaker 1: claims they talk about sports, yet never talks about baseball.
Speaker 1: So this year, We're going to take a month looking
Speaker 1: at all thirty Major League Baseball teams. Now, we'll go
Speaker 1: alphabetically with one exception. Since I'm a lifelong Atlanta Brace fan.
Speaker 1: The Braves get the honor of batt and clean up
Speaker 1: at the very end of the month. Now, before we
Speaker 1: visit the teams, though, talk about your favorite teams, let's
Speaker 1: talk about where it all began. Major League baseball traces
Speaker 1: its roots back to eighteen seventy six, when Chicago businessman
Speaker 1: William Hulbert founded the National League, baseball's first successful professional league.
Speaker 1: In nineteen oh one, Band Johnson established the American League,
Speaker 1: creating a rival that quickly grew into an equal. The
Speaker 1: two leagues agreed to work together in nineteen oh three,
Speaker 1: when they held the first modern World Series between the
Speaker 1: Boston Americans and the Pittsburgh Pirates. Nearly one hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty years later, major League baseball remains America's pastime, filled
Speaker 1: with legendary players, unforgettable moments, and enough statistics to keep
Speaker 1: people arguing for generations. This has been the stupid History Minute,
Speaker 1: and I'm kept pound. This podcast is a production of
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