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  1. Between 1912 and 1920, "Shoeless Joe"
  2. set some great records in baseball.
  3. During those years, news of other kinds
  4. was being made in the U.S. and abroad: 
  5.  
  6. 1912: Woodrow Wilson became the 28th
  7. president of the United States, and
  8. Boston's Fenway Park opened.
  9.  
  10. 1914: An assassin gunned down Archduke
  11. Francis Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary,
  12. starting World War I.
  13.  
  14. 1920: Because African-Americans were
  15. barred from playing minor league or major
  16. league baseball, Andrew "Rube" Foster
  17. founded baseball's first black league -- the
  18. Negro National League.