How The Civil War helped formed Baseball into the great game that it is today. In this paper I will start with telling you how baseball began and where it originated from. Then I will tell you about the original rules , equipment, and uniforms. Then I will finish up by saying how the game has changed from then and now.
Nobody is really sure how baseball got started many say it has roots to the English game called Rounders. The one big difference between baseball and rounder is that in rounders to get a player out you have to hit them with the ball, compared to baseball where you have to tag them with the ball. Soldiers would play baseball at war camps to kill time and try to stay in shape. Baseball didn 't start to rise in popularity until …show more content…
Doctors thought it was a great way for the soldiers to stay in a good physical shape while also having fun. They also played the game of baseball to take their mind off of the war and really just forget about their lives and escape reality for a little bit and focus on the game. It was also a good team building exercise they would all learn to play together and get along on the baseball field then it would translate into them all getting along and working together on the battlefield. So they could all come together and have each others backs and ultimately win the war. Soldiers would even write letters home about it.
In 1845 a New Yorker named Alexander Cartwright published the “original 20 rules of baseball’ for publishing this book he was later nicknamed the Father of Baseball. The first game played under these new rules was played on June 19, 1846, Cartwright took a gold rush trip to California and he would stop in small towns along the way and introduce them to baseball and the rules of the game and how the game was played, So on his long trip to California he helped spread baseball around the …show more content…
But in 1877 that all changed he gave up pitching to become a full time promoter for the game of baseball. He would go on to open up a sporting goods store where he would make and sell bats, gloves, hat, and uniforms anything you could possible need to play the game he had. He would later branch out and make equipment for other sports. Spalding sports equipment is still to this day a major sports brand all around the world. And is used at all levels for all sports and all ages but still they mainly support
Nobody is really sure how baseball got started many say it has roots to the English game called Rounders. The one big difference between baseball and rounder is that in rounders to get a player out you have to hit them with the ball, compared to baseball where you have to tag them with the ball. Soldiers would play baseball at war camps to kill time and try to stay in shape. Baseball didn 't start to rise in popularity until …show more content…
Doctors thought it was a great way for the soldiers to stay in a good physical shape while also having fun. They also played the game of baseball to take their mind off of the war and really just forget about their lives and escape reality for a little bit and focus on the game. It was also a good team building exercise they would all learn to play together and get along on the baseball field then it would translate into them all getting along and working together on the battlefield. So they could all come together and have each others backs and ultimately win the war. Soldiers would even write letters home about it.
In 1845 a New Yorker named Alexander Cartwright published the “original 20 rules of baseball’ for publishing this book he was later nicknamed the Father of Baseball. The first game played under these new rules was played on June 19, 1846, Cartwright took a gold rush trip to California and he would stop in small towns along the way and introduce them to baseball and the rules of the game and how the game was played, So on his long trip to California he helped spread baseball around the …show more content…
But in 1877 that all changed he gave up pitching to become a full time promoter for the game of baseball. He would go on to open up a sporting goods store where he would make and sell bats, gloves, hat, and uniforms anything you could possible need to play the game he had. He would later branch out and make equipment for other sports. Spalding sports equipment is still to this day a major sports brand all around the world. And is used at all levels for all sports and all ages but still they mainly support