People from other countries really like to give Americans a hard time about how new things are. We get it — they've got castles, plagues, really old books, all that stuff. But there's one thing we have they don't that goes way way way back: Baseball.
America's Pastime has a rich and storied history, and in terms of professional sports actually has one of the longest histories of any sport in the world. Take that ping pong!
Sure, interest in Major League Baseball has waned in recent years, but that's probably just because some of these teams have been around for so damn long. What was the first team to put all professional players out on the diamond?
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Correct Answer: Cincinnati Red Stockings
The answer is: Cincinnati Red Stockings. The Cincinnati Red Stockings fielded the first known professional team way back in 1869. They also had a song they liked to sing to the fans before games, which began: "We are a band of baseball players / From Cincinnati city..."Source
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