You won’t find his name on MLB.com in a blustery article, and you won’t find today’s date mentioned in any major baseball article today.  Bud Selig won’t designate a day to honor his memory.  He was overlooked for induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame until an act of the veteran’s committee in 1995 recognized him, ignored by Cooperstown for 113 years even though he was born two miles away in Burlington Flats, NY.  “Major League Baseball” would not exist in its current form without his contribution.  On February 2nd, 1876, in New York City, William Hulbert, of what would become the Chicago Cubs, called together the principle owners of the seminal baseball clubs in order to form what would become the National League.
Hulbert established the central… (more…)