story of baseball
Baseball has been providing us with fun and excitement for more than a hundred and fifty years. The first game resembling baseball as we know it today was played in Hoboken ,New Jersey, on June 19, 1846. The New York Nine beat the New York Knickerbokers that day, 23-1. The game was played according to rules drawn up by Alexander J. Cartwright. A surveyer and amateur athlete.It is a myth that Abner Doubleday1 invented baseball. It was Alexander Cartwright, not Abner Doubleday, who first laid out the present dimensions of the playing fieldand established the basic rules of the game. The first Professional baseball team was the CincinnatiRed Stockings, who toured the country in 1869 and didn'tlose a game all year. Baseball began to attract so many fans that in 1876 the National league was organized-thesame National league that still exists today. Although the game was played in 1876 it wasrecognizable as baseball-nobody would confuse it with football or basketball-it was quite a bit different from baseball as we know it now. For example, pitchers had to throw underhand, the way they still do in softball;th
On April 15, 1947 at two o'clock that tuesday afternoon when nine Brooklyn Dodgers sprang out thier dugout to take the feildto start the 1947 baseball season. Bob feller possessed afastball that rivaled Walter Johnson's. Almost every team in both leagues registered a total number far below the 54 of Babe Ruth alone. Foot-notes:1- Abner Doubleday was a young West Point cadet. Right-handed at bat and in the outfeild, he is tremed-ously poplular in Chicago and in all Latin-America. He threw right-handed but batted left-handed . 376, not enough to win the American league batting championship but a figurefar beyond what today is registered by major leagues leaders. These and other ballplayers have all done thier part to shape the game of baseball. In the summer of 1905, Cobb joined a major leaguebaseball taem, the Detroit Tigers . Because of the numerous types of baseball, or rather games similar to it, some belived Doubleday startedn the game of baseball. A regular with the Cubs starting in 1993, Sosa is no newcomer to home runs he averaged thirty-six a season over the three-year span from1995-1997. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1994_____________________________________Kahn, Roger . It was a memorable event in basebaall history, indeed in American history. Bibliography BibliographyRitter, Lawrence S.
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