what year did interleague baseball start
Below is an advertisement. For the first time in Major League Baseball history, teams from the American League and National League competed in regular season, head-to-head competition during the 1997 campaign. The first Interleague game was on June 12 as the Texas Rangers hosted the San Francisco Giants at The Ballpark in Arlington. For the first five seasons of Interleague Play, each division played against the same division from the other league (NL East vs. AL East, NL Central vs. AL Central and NL West vs. AL West).