Baseball; The Beginning

The sport of baseball was originally played first in the United States. The game has been played for about 200+ years to this date. It has been created by a man named Alexander Cartright in 1845. He made a club named the Knickerbocker Base Ball Club, which was the first organized baseball team in the history of baseball. The rules of baseball havent really been changed, accept by a few "errors" of the sport. For Example, "plugging" a runner is no longer in effect in the sport of baseball today. Plugging a runner means hitting the runner with the ball to get an out. To substitute for that, there is now a player on each base to throw to to get the runner out.
It was not until the year of 1857 where the first organized baseball league was formed. This league had Fifteen other teams in it. Cartwright called the Baseball rules as the “Knickerbocker Rules” of baseball, which is now the basic rules of the game. During the time of Cartwright's age, I dont think many females played the game. He considered baseball to be a gentleman’s game. Today, the sport of baseball can be played by any sex, whether its male or female.
Baseball has been a success to everybody. Just like every other sport (im guessing), baseball had its "drought" also. Beginning in 1900, the deadball era, which lasted until 1919, was low scoring, pitcher dominated games that wasnt really entertaining for the crowds. Also, to add more insult to injury, a baseball was about three dollars at that time, which was a lot of money at that time. Because of this, One baseball was used for the whole game.




Here is a useful link that shows how the amount and the look of the baseball has changed during the years of the game. Enjoy!

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