History of baseball This popular sport was given the name “America’s past time” through the years even though there has been debate for centuries of which land invented this game. The game of baseball has been seen back through history all the way back to 1600s. Abner Doubleday has been said to be the inventor of America’s pastime, but has never been credited with it. He never knew he created this game either because he was killed in the civil war before recongnition. Back then they called it stoolball, which is not baseball, but was very similar, and was played in Great Britain. A commission meeting was set to find out and determine who were the real founders of baseball. Henry Chadwick was the man arguing that baseball was made on American soil. After the meeting the commission decided that it was indeed made in America.
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Another reason is because a player was struck in the temple and died the next day. The balls the pitchers were using were discolored and were hard to see so they made it that balls had to be replaced if discolored. Also pitchers were throwing pitches called spitballs where they actually spit on the ball to make the ball move in the air differently. This was banned from the game and is still not allowed in the game of baseball today.
He started at the Red Sox’s as a pitcher and was traded to the Yankees and became a dominant hitter in the game. He was a left-handed pitcher and was very successful, but his bat was to good to not have every game so he was moved to the outfield. He was hitting 50 plus homeruns very year, which was the best and what, made him one of the greatest hitters ever to live.
Stadiums were built in this time with large seating arraignments making for big targets for sluggers like Ruth and Lou Gehrig. Fenway Park for example, which seats crowds today. The average crowd size was around 3,500 people a
Another reason is because a player was struck in the temple and died the next day. The balls the pitchers were using were discolored and were hard to see so they made it that balls had to be replaced if discolored. Also pitchers were throwing pitches called spitballs where they actually spit on the ball to make the ball move in the air differently. This was banned from the game and is still not allowed in the game of baseball today.
He started at the Red Sox’s as a pitcher and was traded to the Yankees and became a dominant hitter in the game. He was a left-handed pitcher and was very successful, but his bat was to good to not have every game so he was moved to the outfield. He was hitting 50 plus homeruns very year, which was the best and what, made him one of the greatest hitters ever to live.
Stadiums were built in this time with large seating arraignments making for big targets for sluggers like Ruth and Lou Gehrig. Fenway Park for example, which seats crowds today. The average crowd size was around 3,500 people a