The first baseball game is dated June 19, 1846, was played in Hoboken (New Jersey) , the New York Knickerbockers and the New York Nine (1.23) and lasted only four innings. Other meetings were sporadic practiced for decades, new clubs were founded in 1850 and was founded NABBP ( National Association of Base Ball Players ). The first championship with a structural organization similar to those present and 1871 and was organized by NABBP. With the increase in the number of teams were increased in the championships, was established the National League , which still exists in 1876 and the Negro League , league set up exclusively for deceased players to play for African Americans . The Western League was established in 1873 came to rival the National League . Many players could not change society’s membership if the destination was a club in another league. What has caused many legal disputes between the two leagues and between different societies.

It just came to a compromise in 1903, when the NABBP put in agreement the two major leagues, it was decided to organize the final matches to be played between the winners of both leagues, gave birth to the first World Series . Meanwhile, the Western League was superseded by the current American League . The two leagues, American and National are still in place and form the Major League Baseball , the central organ of baseball.

The first meetings demonstration of baseball outside the United States and Canada, took place from 1874 in England , where society Baseball Boston and Philadelphia sports events organized by local companies of cricket , sport very popular then. Other tours were organized in the summer of 1888-89, the All Star game , demo games played by the best American talent in Hawaii , in Australia , New Zealand and the islands of the South Pacific . Many other meetings were held throughout Europe and North Africa , and later federations were founded first, the first organized leagues and the first championships. The first English league dates back to 1890 , while in Ireland the first league was established thirty years later, around 1922 . In the same year took away the Honkbal Hoofdklasse , the Dutch league. In some European countries because of World War II and the Association of American culture in baseball, the sport took root only after the fifties, as in Germany ( Bundesliga ) and Italy ( IBL ). Currently, European nations with regular baseball leagues are 22.

In Cuba , one of the world capital of baseball the sport came in 1878 . On December 13 of that year, Esteban Bellan an American professional player of the period, organized a demonstration first meeting between Cuban players, and since then, the sport spread to much to have international relevance. From Cuba, the sport is popular in many Latin American and Caribbean countries. Among these, the most globally competitive are the Dominican Republic , the Netherlands Antilles , Puerto Rico , Colombia , Costa Rica and Venezuela.

The Japan was the first Asian nation to try baseball. The sport was introduced in the first half of 1870 by the American Horace Wilson, the first company called Shimbashi Athletic Club was formed in 1878 for the work of Hiroshi Hiraoka, a Japanese student who had lived for a time in the United States. Over the years and the birth of a new company was organized the first professional championship in 1922 . Before then, several meetings were organized in universities and the spread of sports among young people accordingly. The professional league in 1923 failed due to economic reasons, from then until the birth of the Japanese Baseball League of 1934 leagues formed and failed many times, but in the meantime the University Championships were well-organized. JBL lasted until 1950 when it was established the Nippon Professional Baseball , and a very competitive league that still exists, so that many players who have been trained in that championship, including Ichiro Suzuki , have become stars of baseball MLB . From Japan the spread of baseball in the surrounding areas was rapid. In Taiwan for example, under the hegemony of the Japanese island from 1895 to 1945 , was introduced in the late nineteenth century. Since 1945 , when the island came under the jurisdiction of China, spread across the sport in China . In Korea the baseball spread much later only in the late twentieth century.

That is however the United States the sport is organized and structured. The first championship will emerge from 1 857 – one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight , professionalism is allowed from 1869 and the National League was founded in 1876 . Thirty franchises, one of them based in Canada , in Toronto , evolve at the highest level in Major League Baseball (league also known as the acronym of his name English : MLB Major League Baseball ). Since 1903 , the World Series in October opposing the winners of both leagues forming the MLB.

Managed globally by the International Baseball Federation (IBAF) founded in 1938 , the sport of been practiced generally spring to autumn is very popular in North America , in some countries of Central America ( Nicaragua and Panama ) of South America ( Colombia and Venezuela ), the Caribbean ( Cuba , Dominican Republic , Puerto Rico ) and the Asian ( Japan , South Korea , Taiwan ).

Some historical victories
The biggest and toughest rivals of the team are New York Mets who are equally strong and that.s how the national league is divided into two big competitors. Phillies are considered to be the toughest rivals in the national league and they give very tough competition to their opponent teams. The world series of 1969 was a very close match between these two teams that was finally won by the New York Mets.
The rivalry between these two teams has been growing and getting intensifies with the passage of time. In 1993 when the Phillies won the NL pennant, the Mets gave the team very lousy competition and they played very poorly, so the victory was obvious before time. In 1970′s PhiladelphiaPhillies got the honor of winning three consecutive championships while in 1980′s both the teams got a chance to win the World Series. In 2006 the New York Mets won the game while the Phillies got an upper hand by winning four straight divisions during the year 2007 to 2010.