The very first night game occurred in 1930 between the Portsmouth Spartans and the Brooklyn Dodgers. No, this is not a Major League Baseball game, but a game played in the National Football League (NFL).
After Joe Carr became commissioner of the NFL he began a campaign to weed out the small-to-middle sized clubs; which were typically community teams made up of mostly locals. His thinking was that the league could only grow into major league status if it had major league cities. Carr made life more difficult for the existing smaller populous franchises and even crafted the entrance fee $2,000 more than an entity which represented a large city.