Fred Fleig was an executive with the Cincinnati Reds who later became secretary and treasurer of the National League, before it merged into the Major League Baseball organization. His widow claims the ...

According to CNN, the Intercollegiate Football Association started hosting its championship game on Thanksgiving Day in 1876.

The National League opened play in 1876. For the next 30-some years, pitchers were simply expected to finish what they started. But in about 1904, New York Giants manager John McGraw essentially ...

It has been a vast evolution since the first National League season in 1876, which featured only 70 games. It's safe to say as the sport has evolved, so has the apparatus around it. On top of the ...

The results of the 1876 presidential election between Samuel Tilden and Rutherford Hayes were close enough to require recounts of ballots in Louisiana. President Ulysses S. Grant sent this telegram ...

In the Jim Crow South, activists became martyrs at the hands of white racists, all for the just cause of using the vote to ...

There have been nearly 21,000 baseball players dating back to 1876, when the National League was introduced, and 149 regular seasons have passed. And no one pulled off 50/50, ever. Five players ...

1800-1830; likely Pennsylvania National Museum of American History Jacquard double-cloth Centennial Coverlet, 1876 National Museum of American History Coverlet panel; overshot, multishaft; c.

With the creation of the Office of Election Crimes and Security, voting rights advocates say the gloves came off in the ...