A series of Tuesday baseball games started in Chicago. Wait ... regular games, in Chicago ... in January? Yes, these games were played on ice, with pro and amateurs alike. They remain a regular winter staple for years.
Baseball owners adopted the designated hitter rule, but with the proviso that only AL teams were allowed to adopt the DH - and on a three-year experimental basis, at that. The "experiment" stretched almost 50 years before the NL adopted the rule in 2022.
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