Embedding a Google Map

This is how a Google Map is embedded into blogger.


And here is a super cool patch of grass....

You Throw I'll Hit

Cricket

Rounders

Sports has changed a lot over the years, but one in particular called Baseball. Baseball is one of my favorite sports with a bunch of different rules than when it was invented. Baseball was based off sports like Cricket or rounders. Before the sport got it's name it was called "Goal Ball", "Round Ball", "Base", "Base Ball", and now baseball. In one version of baseball you had to pitch to yourself and run the opposite way. Players could also be out by getting hit with the ball on a throw. But you still can get out by hitting the ball but only on a hit. But in some versions of the game you still only got 3 strikes until the batter was out. Baseball was an early England folk game, since it was a folk game it had no official or documented rules. The game was never well documented only because it was a peasant's game or a more of a children's game.  But also because people wanted to pass time if the were prohibited from their Church or the State. The first recorded game of baseball was in November 1748 by a family of royalty who lived in Wales. By 1796 the rules were established the game was mentioned to the German's who was a popular place at the time. Baseball was first introduced to America in March of 1786, or even earlier in the 1760's. In the 1850's and 60's American baseball was played with 8 players (mainly boy's or men) and one hitter as shown in the diagram below.

The old Baseball field

Early Baseball game played at
Elysian field

Jackie Robison Stealing a base

Branch Ricky And Jackie Robinson
Sign the Deal

It was a unique style of baseball but only played in Massachusetts. The field was changed into the diamond shape in 1845 when the Magnolia ball clubs had designed their own field to play on. On October 21st 1845 the New York ball club had played their second of their 3 games against a Brooklyn team which was recorded as the 1st inter-club baseball game. After 1845 in 1848 the Knickerbockers had published the rules of baseball. In 1855 the first organized league had started to form with 5 New York teams and one Brooklyn and New Jersey team. But in 1857 16 New York clubs sent delegates to standardized the rules. For example there was a rule on only to get limited amount of runs but now is to have 9 innings instead. Or force outs could happen at any base, also the bases were changed to 90 ft apart from each other and specified 9 men on the field at once.The following year, 25 clubs established an ongoing governing body, constitution by law. But the National Association of Baseball Players are conventionally meeting in 1857. It governed through the 1870's but scheduled no games. The game of baseball in America was for the white men of America until a man named Branch Ricky who was a civil rights activist because he signed the first African American person to ever play in the MLB (Major League Baseball). One reason for Branch Rickey to sign Jacky Robinson was because he didn't care about the color of your skin and what race you were. Branch just wanted good baseball so he helped Robinson through the rough times and broke the color barrier in the MLB. And if it wasn't for Branch Ricky and Jacky Robinson I wouldn't be able to play baseball with the people I play with now



Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origins_of_baseball

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Robinson

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branch_Rickey

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/jackie-robinson-breaks-major-league-color-barrier

Pictures

http://theviewspaper.net/cricket-an-overrated-sport-in-india/
Cricket
http://www.workplacechallenge.org.uk/competitions/tags/Rounders
Rounders
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origins_of_baseball
Elysian Field
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origins_of_baseball

Old baseball field 

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/07/movies/jackie-robinson-the-hero-in-42.html?_r=0

Jackie Robinson

http://www.britannica.com/sports/baseball/images-videos/Jackie-Robinson-shaking-Branch-Rickeys-hand-after-signing-his-first/113946

Branch Ricky And Jackie Robinson

Pioneer to City Girl

I often forget my own privileges of living in 2016. If I were to go back in time, how might my life be different? What things would I lose? What things would I gain? Well, if I were a young pioneer girl, my life would very different from how it is now.

To start, I would not be typing on my laptop right now. Or my phone. Or any electronic device. My entertainment would most likely come from doing chores, telling stories, and singing songs. Maybe drawing, or writing, provided I could read and write. That brings up another difference. I might not be writing this, because I might have no school. Or, at the least, my life would not be very school focused as it is now. My school would be a tent at most, and the rest of my time would be devoted to chores like sewing up clothes, or whatever my mama and papa asked of me.

Another thing that might change is my relationship with nature. Without my house or internet, and with the consistent state of being outside, I would expect to be more connected to nature. I would know the names of almost all the trees I passed along my journey. I would know the best way to start a fire, and how to care for a wagon. And maybe, instead of looking at my watch for 3 to 4 numbers to represent the time, I might look at the sky, guess based upon the sun’s position, and call it sunrise instead of 6:30 AM. Little details like that might change.

I also might have a different connection with my family. Instead of locking myself in my room to do homework at night, I might tend to livestock with my father, or sing and sew dresses with my mother. I might be able to cook up delicious concoctions over a fire with my family at dinnertime instead of making a box of mac’n’cheese. I might know them a little bit better if I rarely left them, and they might know me a little better as well.

Another less-thought-about thing that may change are my dreams and aspirations. Instead of dreaming to be a famous musician, a poet, an author, or a youtuber (that would change the most), I might dream on a smaller scale. Maybe I'd want to know the forest and the trail better than anyone else, or maybe I'd want to become an adventurer. Maybe I'd want to start a town for myself. That would be considered a big dream, especially for a young pioneer girl.

One more thing to add to the list is attire. My normal outfits consist of jeans, a graphic tee-shirt, and boots. Believe it or not, I would not be wearing any of those things in the 1800s. First: none of them had been made; and second: a girl would not be wearing pants in the back then, especially blue jeans. Another fun thing to think about, or else very odd, is that people who wear glasses probably wouldn’t be, had they been living in the 1800s. Glasses had been invented, but they weren’t popular at all, and pioneers probably had other things to focus one.

Lastly, I’m not sure if I would be more carefree or more stressed had I been born back then. Yes, school wouldn’t be an issue, but I would have many chores and a lot of hard work put in front of me each day. I would have to be up early if that’s when I was needed, and I would have to eat what I was given or what I made, because that’s all there was.

To conclude, life as a pioneer girl would be very different in comparison to mine, although it would be fun to go back in time and try it, but it also makes me appreciate the little privileges in life I rarely stop to think about. It makes me remember how easy it is to just go home and listen to music on my phone, when a hundred years ago, that was unthinkable. It makes me want to travel back in time, but it also reminds me to love my own home. I don’t have to be a pioneer to be in touch with nature or my family, I can do those things with just a little extra effort in my day.

(Photo from: https://thereaganwing.wordpress.com/2011/03/20/fraudulism-and-the-new-american-pioneer/)

The Printing Press

The Printing Press

Have you ever had to write a really long essay by hand?  In the year 1420 most people had to write long books by hand.  This all changed once the printing press was invented sometime between 1440 and 1450.

The early printing press, while very basic, made many more books published and it also made many more people literate.  The early printing press was very basic, it basically was a bunch of letter stamps fastened into a board and they were all dipped in ink and then lowered onto a page of a book and they would make that page.  This made it much easier to publish books and the rising amount of books encouraged more people to become literate.

This early, very basic printing press still affect things today.  It soon became more popular to read books after the printing press was invented so the demand for printing presses went up.  This demand for more printing presses made many inventors wonder if there was a better way to print books so they started inventing new ways to print things.  All thin eventually turned into a appliance that many people might have in their house and that is really useful even for printing this article right now,  if you haven't guessed what it is yet I’ll tell you, it is simply known the printer or printing machine.  Now you might be thinking, “Well I don’t print books on my computer,”  if you are one of those people then you should know that there are huge factories that print books now.  We can now even print 3-D things using printers.

Now you might be wondering why I like the print press enough to write two pages about it.  The answer is I love to read.  If the printing press wasn’t invented about 566 years ago then we might not have as many books now and many people, including me, might be illiterate today.

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