Baseball's effects on today's society.
Baseball is one of the oldest and most popular sports today.
took place in the summer of 1839 by a man named Abner Doubleday. The "Game", as it's known today, developed highly throughout the later 1800's. Since then children and adults play the sport of baseball that attracts millions to the ball park every day and entertains millions more through radio and television broadcasts. Baseball is labeled, as being "America's Pastime" and is a key to the social impact and influence on American .
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By 1860, with the addition of a few refinements, such as the adoption of the nine-inning concept from Philadelphia and the requirement that fly balls be caught in the air rather than on one bounce. This version became the most popular form of baseball being played.
It is said that baseball's popularity derived from the time of the beginning of the Civil War; American newspapers were carrying detailed, inning-by-inning scores of games. This then lead to increased coveraging in newspapers, helping baseball gain a new audience. The game benefited from the public's interest for statistics, still one of baseball's greatest strengths when measured against other popular sports.
`In 1858 a group of amateur baseball clubs met in New York to organize a ruling body, the National Association of Base Ball Players. This group assumed the responsibility for rule making and for maintaining the fraternal nature of the game. It also sought to promote the new sport and, in proper Victorian form, to maintain its integrity. By the end of the war the Association represented 91 clubs drawn from 10 states. Three years later that number had jumped to 350 clubs as baseball took its position as the leading sport in America, a position it held for a century.