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Stoery Of Baseball Essay, Research Paper

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 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

feet to home plate.

The rules were gradually changed over the following 20

years, until by about 1900 the game was more or less the

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