Women who were close enough to see higher-level positions on the corporate ladder yet couldn't reach them faced a barrier referred to as a glass ceiling, according to a 1986 article in The Wall Street Journal.
Baseball in Canada. anada claims the first recorded account of a baseball game, which occurred in Beechville, Ontario on June 4, 1838, described in a detailed letter written by Dr. Adam E. Ford, but not published until 38 years later on May 5, 1886, in a magazine called Sporting Life.
Who was the first African American baseball player in Major League Baseball? In 1884, two bothers, Fleet and Welday Walker, black Americans, played for Toledo in the American Association which was considered a Major League at the time.