About Baseball

CONTENT

- SHORT HISTORY IN BASEBALL

- WHO INVENTED BASEBALL

- THE EARLIEST FORMS OF BASEBALL

- BASEBALL GAINS TRACTION IN THE US

-SHORT HISTORY IN BASEBALL

The history of baseball in the United States dates to the 18th century, when boys and amateur enthusiasts played a baseball-like game by their own informal rules using homemade equipment. The popularity of the sport grew and amateur mens' ball clubs were formed in the 1830-50s. Semi-professional baseball clubs followed in the 1860s, and the first professional leagues arrived in the post-Civil War 1870s.

-WHO INVENTED BASEBALL ?? 

You may have heard that a young man named Abner Doubleday invented the game known as baseball in Cooperstown, New York, during the summer of 1839. Doubleday then went on to become a Civil War hero, while baseball became America's beloved national pastime.

Not only is that story untrue, it's not even in the ballpark.

Doubleday was still at West Point in 1839, and he never claimed to have anything to do with baseball. In 1907, a special commission created by the sporting goods magnate and former major league player AJ Spalding used flimsy evidence — namely the claims of one man, mining engineer Abner Graves — to come up with the Doubleday origin story. Cooperstown businessmen and major league officials would rely on the myth's enduring power in the 1930s, when they established the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in the village.

As it turns out, the real history of baseball is a little more complicated than the Doubleday legend. References to games resembling baseball in the United States date back to the 18th century. Its most direct ancestors appear to be two English games: rounders (a children's game brought to New England by the earliest colonists) and cricket. 

By the time of the American Revolution, variations of such games were being played on schoolyards and college campuses across the country. They became even more popular in newly industrialized cities where men sought work in the mid-19th century. 

-THE EARLIEST FORMS OF BASEBALL

A French manuscript from 1344 depicts the first illustrations of people playing a game of what appears to be baseball, and it's thought that the French had several variations of the game. England and Ireland concocted their own versions with cricket and rounders. The foundation of each game remained the same: two teams playing against each other, with the objective of hitting a ball with a bat and scoring points by running through four bases.

 In a 1744 British publication, a description of baseball showed the game as played on a triangle, rather than the modern-day diamond, and posts in the ground instead of bases. This is the earliest known written record acknowledging the game. The first recorded played game of “base-ball” was in 1749 in Surrey, with the Prince of Wales as a player. In 1755, an English lawyer named William Bray recorded a game on Easter Monday. This early version of baseball was brought to North America in the late 1700s. By the 1830s, there were reports of unofficial bat and ball games occurring throughout Canada and the United States. Modern baseball was finally beginning to take shape.

-Baseball Gains Traction in the US

Prior to the Civil War, town ball was a popular game in the Northeast. In 1845 New York City, a group of men founded the New York Knickerbocker Baseball Club. They founded the framework for the rules of the game seen today: 토토사이트웹  three-strike rules, diamond-shaped infield, and foul lines. They also decided against tagging runners by throwing balls at them, which had previously been used during games, deeming it dangerous. One year later, the Knickerbockers played the first official game of baseball against a team of cricket players, marking the beginning of a new era in sports.

 By the mid-1850s, residents of New York City were in a frenzy for baseball. As early as 1856, reporters were referring to the game as a "national pastime" or "national game." By 1871, the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players was founded as the first professional league. The National League followed five years later, and the American League came in 1901. By now, nearly all modern rules of baseball were in place - the last change came in 1901 that counted foul balls as strikes.

SUMMARY:

The baseball field at the US Military Academy at West Point was named Doubleday Field in his honor in 1939, the same year the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum opened. Many baseball fields around the US are also named Doubleday Field, including in Cooperstown, which opened in 1920.

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