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Originally Posted by packs
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.
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Major League Baseball is not a single league, the American League and the National League constitute the current MLB umbrella organization that is composed of these two leagues. This umbrella organization did not exist at all until 1903, and remained fairly toothless for quite some time after that. The Federal League has been universally recognized as a major league, along with several others, for many decades. I guess no player before 1903 has a Major League rookie, by your redefinition of what "major league" means. Cy Young's first major league card is now his E107. "major league baseball" and "Major League Baseball" are not the same thing, one is a description of the level of play and acceptance in the stat books, the other is an actual organization.