Definitions for Major League Baseball
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1. Major League Baseballnoun

   The highest level professional baseball organization in the United States and Canada.

2. Major League Baseballnoun

   The combination of the National League and the American League.

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1. Major League Baseball

   Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball organization. It is the oldest of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada. A total of 30 teams play in Major League Baseball: 15 teams in the National League (NL) and 15 in the American League (AL). The NL and AL were formed as separate legal entities in 1876 and 1901, respectively. Beginning in 1903, the two leagues cooperated but remained legally separate entities. In 2000 the leagues merged into a single organization led by the Commissioner of Baseball.MLB also oversees Minor League Baseball, which comprises 256 teams affiliated with the major league clubs. MLB and the World Baseball Softball Confederation jointly manage the international World Baseball Classic tournament. Baseball's first openly all-professional team was the Cincinnati Red Stockings founded in 1869. Before that, some teams had secretly paid some players. The first few decades of professional baseball were characterized by rivalries between leagues and by players who often jumped from one team or league to another. The period before 1920 is known as the dead-ball era, during which players would rarely hit home runs. Professional baseball in the United States survived a conspiracy to fix the 1919 World Series, which came to be known as the Black Sox Scandal. The sport rose in popularity in the 1920s, and survived potential downturns during the Great Depression and World War II. Shortly after the war, Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color barrier. The 1950s and 1960s were a time of expansion for the AL and NL, then new stadiums and artificial turf surfaces began to change the game in the 1970s and 1980s. Home runs dominated the game during the 1990s, and media reports began to discuss the use of anabolic steroids among MLB players in the mid-2000s. In 2006, an investigation produced the Mitchell Report, which implicated many players in the use of performance-enhancing substances, including at least one player from each team. Today, MLB is composed of 30 teams: 29 in the United States and 1 in Canada. Teams play 162 games each season and 5 teams in each league advance to a four-round postseason tournament that culminates in the World Series, a best-of-seven championship series between the two league champions that dates to 1903. Baseball broadcasts are aired on television, radio, and the Internet throughout North America and in several other countries. MLB has the highest season attendance of any sports league in the world with more than 69.6 million spectators in 2018.

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1. Major League Baseball

   Major League Baseball is a professional baseball league, consisting of teams that play in the American League and National League. Dating to 1901 and 1876 respectively, the two leagues merged in 2000 into a single organization led by the Commissioner of Baseball, after 100 years as separate legal entities. MLB constitutes one of the major professional sports leagues of the United States and Canada. It is composed of 30 teams — 29 in the United States and one in Canada. Teams in MLB play 162 games each season over six months. Five teams in each league advance to a four-round postseason tournament that culminates in the World Series, a best-of-seven-games championship series between the two league champions that dates to 1903. The organization oversees many minor-league baseball leagues, which operate about 240 teams affiliated with the major-league clubs. With the International Baseball Federation, the league also manages the international World Baseball Classic tournament. MLB has the highest season attendance of any sports league in the world with nearly 75 million spectators in 2012.

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How to pronounce Major League Baseball?

1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

   British

   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

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   Natasha

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   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

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   Neerja

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Major League Baseball in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Major League Baseball in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of Major League Baseball in a Sentence

1. Bernie Sanders:

   Major League Baseball has gotta understand that baseball is more than just a bottom line for a group of billionaires. It is these communities where the kids come out, where young ballplayers.

2. Commissioner Rob Manfred:

   Major League Baseball prides Major League Baseball on providing fans in our ballparks with unparalleled proximity and access to our players and the game taking place on the field, at the same time, it is important that fans have the option to sit behind protective netting or in other areas of the ballpark where foul balls and bats( that slip out of players' hands or shatter) are less likely to enter.

3. Yoshi Hasegawa:

   Otani is the most wanted Japanese player by Major League Baseball teams, (But) He is not playing to 100 percent of his ability as a pitcher because he also bats. .

4. Chris Marinak:

   We’ve been trying to find these really cool, iconic locations, places that do n’t get to normally experience Major League Baseball, we had one in Omaha, and Fort Bragg, and now our first game in Iowa. This one has a special sort of feeling to it because the movie itself was such a widely appealing movie. Even non-baseball fans watch that movie and love that movie because of that message and storytelling in the movie.

5. Dwight D Eisenhower:

   When I was a small boy growing up in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing and as we sat there in the warmth of a summer afternoon on a riverbank we talked about what we wanted to do when we grew up. I told him that I wanted to be a real major-league baseball player, a genuine professional like Honus Wagner. My friend said that he'd like to be President of the United States. Neither of us got our wish.

References

1. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Major_League_Baseball
2. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_League_Baseball
3. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Major League Baseball