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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
New York:Beech Tree Paperback Book, 1999_____________________________________Jacobs,William Jay . Foot-notes:1- Abner Doubleday was a young West Point cadet. Bibliography BibliographyRitter, Lawrence S. 2- Jackie Robinson was the first African-American to play the game. Six-feet and two hundred pounds, he was the smallest of the three challenger for the home-run record. The rules were gradually changed over the following 20years, until by about 1900 the game was more or less the same as it is today. He threw right-handed but batted left-handed . , 1997_____________________________________Internet: AOL, 2000. Undoubtedly Robinson was a great ballplayer. Because of the numerous types of baseball, or rather games similar to it, some belived Doubleday startedn the game of baseball. Another astonashing differance is players today areearning countless millions of dollars, unlike days of yesteryear whaen players only made if they were lucky125,000 dollars. 4- Sammy Sosa signed his first proffessional baseball contract ay age of sixteen. He also hit safely in 26 consecutive games, clubbed 9 triples and 36 doubles, and batted in 137 runs. 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.
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