Baseball is one of the oldest and most popular spectator sports. The game known today was developed during the early 1800s among children and rookie players. Today, major league and rookie baseball attracts millions of viewers to ballparks each year and attracts millions more through the radio and television.
A popular legend states that Abner Doubleday, who was a Union officer during the American Civil War, invented baseball in Cooperstown, New York.
in 1839. But this legend has very little reasons and details supporting it.
I have researched baseball and found that the following legend, to me, has presented many details and reasons concluding to why it's the best legend that has been told.
In the early 1800's in England. A game was made up called Rounders. This game was that a batter was to hit a ball and run around bases without being out. Balls that were caught without hitting the ground, or after one bounce, were outs. Rounders also involved the practice of plugging, in which fielders could throw out runners by throwing the ball at them when they ran between bases. The rules of Rounders were not similar and varied widely from place to place, say if you played in London, England which said the bases were 90 feet apart but you got transferred Manchester, England the bases were 65 feet apart. People used many names to describe this game, including town ball, one o" cat, and eventually, baseball.
In 1845, a group of boys led by Alexander Cartwright, from New York, formed a club called the Knickerbocker Base Ball Club. The Knickerbockers developed a set of 20 rules, first out in 1845, that became the modern set rules in baseball. The Knickerbockers rules called for nine-player teams and designed the field with a home plate and three other bases spaced out in specific lengths. There no longer was actually throwing the ball at the runner but, replaced it with the tagging runner or forcing them out at a base.
Baseball is one of the oldest and most popular spectator sports. The game known today was developed during the early 1800s among children and rookie players. ... In the early 1800's in England. ... On June 19, 1846, the Knickerbockers played the first official baseball game. ... Tom Barlow of the Brooklyn Atlantics invented the bunt, which early hitters used a bat that was flat on one side. ...
But in early America, precursors of baseball included informal games of English origin such as paddleball, trap ball, rounders, and town ball. ... From this British game came umpires and innings, and early baseball writers like Henry Chadwick used cricket terminology such as "batsman," "playing for the side," and "excellent field" in describing early baseball games. Likewise, the pioneer baseball innovator Harry Wright, a cricket professional turned baseball manager, drew heavily on his cricket background in promoting baseball as a professional team sport in the United States. ... Among its ea...
In today's society women are not allowed to play baseball with men due to patriarchal myths and misconceptions that have been around since the emergence of baseball in America. ... Since the adoption of baseball as an American pastime, the sport of baseball has been cultivated and altered to amputate women exuding the masculinity of baseball. ... To solve this problem we must start early, we must preparing girls early to have the ability and skill to play baseball amongst their male counterparts. ... (Ring, 2009, p. 123) If girls are allowed to begin training at an early age there shou...
Forms of baseball have been popular for many centuries. ... The rules continued to change slightly, but by the early 1900s the rules were almost exactly the same as they are today. ... Competitions between these clubs eventually led to the creation of organized baseball leagues. An organization created to set standardized rules and playing schedules, the National Association of Baseball Players, was formed in 1858 to be baseball's first official governing body. ... Because the Cincinnati Red Stockings were successful on their tour, in 1871 the National Associat...
This column starts a three part look at the history of baseball. ... It began to become quote popular in this country in the early 19th century, and many sources report the growing popularity of a game called "townball", "base", or "baseball". Throughout the early part of that century, small towns formed teams, and baseball clubs were formed in larger cities. ... The early 1860s, however were a time of great turmoil in the United States. ... But interest in baseball was carried to other parts of the country by Union soldiers, and when the war ended there were more people playing baseball t...
Anyway what would the use of steroids in baseball be beneficial? ... In baseball the bigger the numbers the bigger the contracts. ... Muscle and tendon injuries may cause some short term effects on a career, but in some cases steroid use can cause an early retirement. ... Then we are going to see high school athletes around the age of eighteen start harming their bodies so early in their lives just to play a game at the next level. ... Baseball needs to wake up. ...
Because when one player is paid $252 million dollars to play baseball (a whole baseball team was bought for $250 million dollars) he needs to be healthy and not damage his body by willfully taking steroids. ... In a competitive juncture, such as baseball, the better a player becomes, the more he gets paid. ... And major league teams paid $317 million last year to players physically unable to play -- a 130 percent increase from four years earlier". ... Many of today's baseball players are now using over-the-counter powders and such rather than actual steroids....
Even though professional baseball has been around since the early years of America, it seems to have lost its magic over the years. ... No baseball player is going to find a better job than playing a game. ... For example, my father was huge baseball fan his whole life. ... However, the strike is not the only problem with baseball. ... "Baseball owners seem to think of their fans as their customers. " The only thing baseball owners should be thinking of is their fans support, not their money. ...