April 22. First baseball game played in the new National League, 1876.

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April 22, 1876 - First baseball game played in the new National League.• Photo of a parian statue by Isaac Broome, "The Catcher," exhibited at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876.

April 22. First baseball game played in the new National League, 1876.

April 22. Mickey Vernon is born in 1918.

April 21. Hardie Richardson is born in 1855.