Question ~ What's the difference between the American and National Baseball Leagues?
Answer ~ Major League Baseball is divided into two leagues with long and storied histories. See more sports pictures
Most people know that Major League Baseball is divided into two separate leagues: 1The American League and the National League. The National League, formed in 1876, is the older of the two leagues that make up the professional Major League Baseball organization in the United States and Canada. The main difference in the two is that the American League uses the designated hitter rule to replace pitchers during at-bats, and the National League does not.
Alexander Cartwright, an architect and sportsman in New York City, is widely recognized as the father of modern organized baseball. He was instrumental in founding the first organization devoted to playing baseball, the Knickerbocker Base Ball Club, in 1845. He wrote 20 rules about the field layout and how the game was played. The most important one was that players had to be tagged or forced out rather than having the ball thrown at them [source: Dickey]. Of course, the rules were modified as the game evolved, but Cartwright gave us the essence of baseball.
Sorry if it's a bit too long and the word with the D isn't supposed to be a bad word in there sorry about that xD This took me a while. (It's not the Bad word with a D btw ;-; just don't mind that.) I'll put the part you need in bold so you know where they are. I don't know the others like the other 2 differences. But I tried my best. I hope this helps my hands really hurt from typing ;-;
