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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.
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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
Jackie Robinson
Branch Ricky And Jackie Robinson
Dear The All Sports God,
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed reading your article as it brought to light a lot of information about baseball that I did not know before. You article made a nice time line of baseball from start to the modern day. My one question for you is, where there any games similar to baseball before baseball was invented?
Sincerely,
William
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ReplyDeleteDear The All Sports God,
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed your post. I learned a lot about the history of Baseball. The history of the name is what really got me. I have a question though. Why was it called Baseball and not something like Cricketbase?
Dear The All Sports God,
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed your post. I learned a lot about the history of Baseball. The history of the name is what really got me. I have a question though. Why was it called Baseball and not something like Cricketbase?
Dear The all Sports God,
ReplyDeleteThis has been a good and informal post. I don't like baseball that much so I'm not to familiar with its history, but was there a game like baseball that kind of made baseball the game it is today?
Hi all sports god,
ReplyDeleteI like how you put in all the pictures of the baseball players. My question is why did they finally decide on using the name baseball?
Dear All Sports god,
ReplyDeleteI really liked reading this blog post. It was very informative on baseball with facts I didn't know before reading the post. Also your blog post had really cool pictures on the sides that visualized the writing well. My one question would be how long have you been playing baseball? Great work!
Sincerely,
Rachel Y.
Dear All Sports God,
ReplyDeleteThis was a very interesting and informative blog post, with lots of facts many people probably never knew (or at least, I didn't know.). I was wondering about your opinion on if baseball would change again, and, if so, how that would affect you. If not, how do you think baseball would be different today without these changes? Thank you for your time and your post!
Sincerely,
Eve
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ReplyDeleteHi Ubedei!
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed reading your blog post. I liked all of the interesting facts you included. When was baseball invented?
- Mikayla
Hi Ubedei,
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed reading your post and it was really interesting to hear all of those facts. Like Mikayla, I was wondering when was baseball invented?
Great post,
Anushka
Hi All Sports God,
ReplyDeleteI know almost close to nothing about baseball and I found your post extremely informative as well as interesting. The most interesting thing I learned from you post was the history of how the name baseball was made.
Great post,
-selina
Dear Ubedei,
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed reading your blog, it was a lot of good and new information that I did not know. I was very surprised to hear and would have never guessed that the first recorded game of baseball was In Wales in 1748. I was wondering if this topic you think relates to you in a way?
Great post,
Cai
Dear Ubedei,
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed reading your blog because you gave me a clear understanding about baseball. I like how you talked about the history of it and what is used to be named. Also, I liked how you included lots of images to give us a better understanding. My one question is, What is it like to play baseball? What thoughts go through your mind while you are playing?
Hi,
ReplyDeleteGreat Post! You seem to know so much about Baseball! I was wondering why you think that rules have changed so much? Why don't we play it like they did in 1748. So many sports have evolved lately.
Really Nice writing!
-Tulip
Dear Ubedei,
ReplyDeleteNormally I'm not interested in Baseball, but I thought that your post was very interesting. My question to you is who invented Baseball?
-Emma
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ReplyDeleteHey Ubedei, I loved how i could relate to your post. Your post was very informative, however I'm wondering, how did baseball change as the name changed?
ReplyDelete-Bowen
Hi Ubedei,
ReplyDeleteYou did a great job describing the history of baseball, and how it changed the sports industry. One question, when was the baseball invented?
Hi, Ubedei
ReplyDeleteI liked how you elaborated a lot on the history of baseball. When was baseball invented?
Hi Ubedei,
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed your blog post. I didn't know much about baseball before this, so thank you. Who invented baseball?
Thanks,
Julia
Dear Ubedei,
ReplyDeleteI really liked reading your blog post. There was a lot of great information about baseball, a sport I didn't know much about until now. I was really interested in the fact that baseball dates back to 1748. Who invented baseball, and what inspired you to play baseball?
From,
Riley
Ubedei,
ReplyDeleteI really liked reading your blog post. You included a lot of interesting facts and information about baseball, a sport I've never known much about. Who/what inspired you to play baseball? Nice Work
- Isabel
Hi Ubedei,
ReplyDeleteIt was really interesting reading your blog post on the history of Baseball. I can relate because I play baseball. I was wondering, what team do you play for?
-Kellen
Ubedei,
ReplyDeleteI really liked your blog post. I never knew that much about baseball and it was cool to learn about it's history. I liked how you included some of the old names. Have you always liked baseball? What caused you to start?
Nico job,
Meagan
The all sports god,
ReplyDeleteImpeccable job describing the history of baseball and how it changed the sports industry! Have you always had a burning passion for the sport? What team do you play for?
Play on,
-Flexi