Play Ball! The Rise of Baseball as America’s Pastime Episode 5, Baseball's Many Leagues and Associations Episode 5, Baseball's Many Leagues and Associations.

Streaming video - 2019

Learn how, after a tumultuous three decades, baseball finally found a formula for 20th-century success: leagues and associations. Topics include the transformations of minor leagues into major ones, the competitive relationships between leagues, and the national agreement of 1883 that paved the way for what became known as “organized baseball.”