... happen to baseball was the creating of another professional league, the American league, in 1901. This league was actually a minor league called the Western League. A man by the name of Byron Bancroft Johnson, "Ban", took this minor league, cleaned it up, enticed players from the National league to move over, and ended creating a rival league to the National league. Now having ... ...

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