history of basebal
Title Page ................................................................................. Page 1Table of Contents ..................................................................... Page 2Paper Begins ............................................................................. Page 3Work Cited ................................................................................ Page 8 A child's game played with a wooden bat and a small white ball is "our national pastime." Baseball has climbed from being played by children in their backyards on Sunday afternoons to becoming a multimillion dollar corporation over the last hundred years. Baseball as we know it first came into existence in Cooperstown, New York in 1939 as Major General Abner Doubleday created the first baseball field. The first recorded match was played at Elysien Fields in Hoboken, New Jersey on June 19, 1846. The game was played between the New York Nine and the Cartwright's New York Nickerbockers. The New
Greats such a Ty Cobb, Cy Young and Christy Mathewson first played professional baseball during this time period. After the war, baseball began to grow again. In 1976 these two pitchers refused to sign their contracts. " Branch Rickey had a plan to break the color barrier. The league began its inaugural season in the spring of 1876. In 1891 the Players League's short life came to an end. " (Heitz) Baseball's new and sudden popularity also brought some greed from the players. This league occupied eleven cities and the cost to join was $10. The National League claimed both of these cities. During the early 1920's one of the greatest players ever to play the game of baseball started his career. The '80's belonged to the older players. Night baseball games continued to become more and more popular with fans. The economic issues were growing in baseball and becoming more complicated.
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