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Early Baseball

 

            Baseball is one of the oldest and most popular spectator sports. The game known today was developed during the early 1800s among children and rookie players. Today, major league and rookie baseball attracts millions of viewers to ballparks each year and attracts millions more through the radio and television.
             A popular legend states that Abner Doubleday, who was a Union officer during the American Civil War, invented baseball in Cooperstown, New York.
             in 1839. But this legend has very little reasons and details supporting it.
             I have researched baseball and found that the following legend, to me, has presented many details and reasons concluding to why it's the best legend that has been told.
             In the early 1800's in England. A game was made up called Rounders. This game was that a batter was to hit a ball and run around bases without being out. Balls that were caught without hitting the ground, or after one bounce, were outs. Rounders also involved the practice of plugging, in which fielders could throw out runners by throwing the ball at them when they ran between bases. The rules of Rounders were not similar and varied widely from place to place, say if you played in London, England which said the bases were 90 feet apart but you got transferred Manchester, England the bases were 65 feet apart. People used many names to describe this game, including town ball, one o" cat, and eventually, baseball.
             In 1845, a group of boys led by Alexander Cartwright, from New York, formed a club called the Knickerbocker Base Ball Club. The Knickerbockers developed a set of 20 rules, first out in 1845, that became the modern set rules in baseball. The Knickerbockers rules called for nine-player teams and designed the field with a home plate and three other bases spaced out in specific lengths. There no longer was actually throwing the ball at the runner but, replaced it with the tagging runner or forcing them out at a base.


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