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Originally Posted by G1911
This is not correct, they are not part of the same league. The American and National Leagues remain separate leagues to this day. They began to cooperate a bit in 1903, they remained separate. The National Commission had little power, the commissioner's office was only created in 1920. The American and National leagues even then remained separate legal entities until 2000, and remain as 2 different playing leagues to this day.
The American and National Leagues are not the only recognized Major Leagues. That a player's rookie is dependent on each major league is not a standard I have ever heard before. If it is to be a standard, it should be made the same across the board; if 3 Finger Brown now has a Federal League rookie card in Crack Jack, then Frank Robinson has 2 rookies as well.
This is an odd line to draw.
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If you say so. The Federal League was a separate league as evidenced by it's own champion and non-competition against major league baseball.
The American League champion played the National League champion in both 1914 and 1915 because those teams were part of major league baseball, or the same league.