Baseball Trophy- Major League Baseball

Major League Baseball is the highest level in North American professional baseball league. In 1903, it was established jointly by National league and the American league. It is one of the four major professional sports leagues in the United States. The American League use the designated hitter rule, national league is no use. Through the rules of the game the players win the baseball trophy.

Baseball is the earliest professional sports in the United States, the first professional league was founded in 1871, but the problems began creating period, five years later by today's national union took over. Recovered all the management team will operate the country's power, the right of the players, there is no guarantee, the monopoly market linked by constantly challenging the League of nations union was born, the new union absorbed by the League of nations from players and coaches, the introduction of more new ideas to attract fans. In the current major league structure stability before, there are professional league four short-lived, established the sequence as American Association, Union Association, Player League and Federal League federal union.

Now another pillar of the American league of major league was founded in 1901, at that time, due to poor management of national alliance, by 12 teams downsizing to eight teams. Two years later, the American league began is higher than the total number of viewers of the League of Nations. The AP has to high salaries to attract united star hopping, the League of Nations to avoid a two losses and injury, agreed with the United States alliance agreement, by the end of 1902, two Leagues held "Cincinnati conference" unified format, rules and management, also began to hold so-called "World Series", by the two league championship fight for the championship.

Respectively before 1969, two league games, decided directly by the regular season record in the league titles, two league titles held seven war four series of the World Series. With the addition of 1960 in the eight team, eight team from each league increased to twelve teams, in order to increase the game can be viewed and tension, major league playoffs for the two round of the modified. The first round is called the league championship, respectively by two things against Union District championship; the winner is the League Championship and advanced to the second round for the baseball trophy. In 1994, the team has reached a total of 28 branches, each partition each have seven teams, the League re revised the playoff, instead of round, and the partition into three areas each alliance, making the team the partition can fully meet the location. Unfortunately, the major league players strike in 1994, the World Series and lead to abortion, the new system by the end of the 1995 season was officially implemented.

American baseball is held every year on the first Tuesday in the June Amateur draft, the formal name for First-Year Player Draft official. The draft for a total of 50 round, from the beginning of 2005, fully in accordance with the team winning the draft decision, start by winning the lowest team selection, in accordance with the highest order until the winning team. The draft will have two days can be, but the league has scheduled third days for a rainy day. The first day is usually a 20 round, the remaining 30 wheel until second days before. Turn the team has 2 minutes can be considered, then scout general will soon broadcast call selected players, but the team has 15 days can be alone with the player, if a team fails to sign the player in 15 days, the player is made arbitrarily player qualification, if high school players choose to enter the 4 year college, team players in the school are also holds the right to contract.

In addition, each team will play 162 games in a season, number and the same opponents play is not necessarily, usually by the partition of the other teams will most often. From the beginning of 1997 with inter League game, a team and a coalition of opponents to play 12 to 18, the game is not collected and administration system, to have decided to partition of the rankings, the highest winning percentage for the champion, won the baseball trophy.