Реферат: Stoery Of Baseball Essay Research Paper Baseball

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-

feet, six inches.

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 right-handed but batted left-handed . He held his

hands a few inches apart on the bat and learned to bunt

or slap line-drive hits precisely where he wanted them. He

made place hitting an art.

In the summer of 1905, Cobb joined a major league

baseball taem, the Detroit Tigers .On August 9, Ty Cobb

registered his first base hit as a member of the Tigers.

In the many years to follow he added over four thousand

more hits. Along with them would come a national rep-

utation.

Another player who some have said “changed the

game”, is John Roosevelt(”Jackie”) Robinson2.On April

15, 1947 at two o’clock that tuesday afternoon when nine

Brooklyn Dodgers sprang out thier dugout to take the feild

to start the 1947 baseball season. It was a memorable

event in basebaall history, indeed in American history.

Undoubtedly Robinson was a great ballplayer. He

was National league’s Rookie of the year in 1947 and its

Most valuable player (MVP) in 1949. He won the election

in 1962 to the Bseball Hall of Fame, the first African-

American ever chosen for that honor.