



1910 President William Howard Taft attends opening day. 1912 The first players' strike in Major League Baseball occurs. Fred Snodgrass drops the ball and costs the Giants the World Series. Fenway Park opens. 1913 Ebbets Field opens. The Federal League is created. 1914 The Panama Canal opens. 1916 Jimmy Claxton, the first black player in 20th century organized white baseball, is fired because of his African-American ancestry. 1917 The United States enters World War I. 1918 Many Major League players serve in World War I. The "Star-Spangled Banner" is sung at a baseball game for the first time. 1919 In the most famous scandal in baseball history eight players from the Chicago White Sox are accused of throwing the World Series against the Cincinnati Reds.

