Today is the 100th anniversary of the Wright Brother’s first flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. The Wright Flyer was the first plastic model I ever assembled, back when I was a Cub Scout and we were doing a project on flight. The Wright’s invention eventually led to major league baseball on the west coast:

Because baseball teams must travel to one another’s ballparks, the distance between teams has been limited by available means of transportation. Prior to the 1950s, teams traveled mainly by bus and train, but during that decade, air travel made it possible for teams to travel from coast to coast in less than a day. In the past, distance also limited team location to densely populated cities, where a sufficient number of fans could reach the ballpark by mass transit.

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