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 field
             and established the basic rules of the game.
             The first Professional baseball team was the Cincinnati
             Red Stockings, who toured the country in 1869 and didn't
             lose a game all year. Baseball began to attract so many
             fans that in 1876 the National league was organized-the
             same National league that still exists today.
             Although the game was played in 1876 it was
             recognizable 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;the
             batter could request the pitcher to throw a "high" or "low"
             pitch; it took nine balls, rather than four, for a batter to
             get a base on balls; and the pitching distance was olny 45
             The rules were gradually changed over the following 20
             years, until by about 1900 the game was more or less the
             same as it is today. In 1884, the pitchers were permitted
             to throw overhand; in 1887, the batter was no longer
             allowed to request a "high"or "low" pitch; by 1889,it took
             only four balls to get a batter to a base on balls;
             the pitching distance was legthened to sixty-
             And since that day in 1846 There have been
             many greats to make up the game baseball such as Ty
             Cobb who was born in a small town in Georgia in 1886. He
             threw...