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America. Baseball was originally believed to have been invented by Abner Doubleday of New York in 1839. Later it was discovered that the game was not invented by Doubleday but by Alexander Cartwright. Abner Doubleday had nothing to do with the creation of the sport. Abner Graves, who shared the information with The Mills Commission in search of baseball’s origin created the false information. In 1845, Cartwright, the true inventor, and one of the founders of the Knickerbocker Baseball Club in…

spring; which meant it was time for baseball. In the year 2013, I was only in fifth grade in the small suburb of Streamwood, Illinois. I have a small family. There was my tall dad, who always likes to joke around. Then there was my mom, who was really nice and sweet, like candy. My sister and me were very similar, yet very different. We both like computers, watching youtube, and eating Gyros that we only get once a month. One day, about in the middle of the baseball season, me and my mother…

pastimes is catching The Blue Crabs play a game or two. The Blue Crabs are a minor league baseball team that offer excitement for their fans all year long. The team plays from April through August, which gives residents plenty of time to catch several games. One of the most exciting portions of this season is the addition to roster that was just announced earlier this year, Steve Lombardozzi. Lombardozzi is a former major leaguer who has played for the Nationals, the Orioles and the Pirates.…

understandable and are ethical; however, this particular article needs the ethics and the morals challenged. In brief summary, the situation that is being asked is as follows. The dad to an 11-year-old boy has always bought the cheapest tickets for baseball games. The situation is the dad, taking the boy with him, moves to the better, unoccupied seats down at the front when the…

I was walking up to the baseball diamond at Hyatt Elementary. I was eating a greasy piece of pizza. I saw the dark clouds in the sky, but I didn’t expect the rain to come, because it was hot and muggy. This is because it was June of 2017. When the game started we (my team and Fenton’s team) sang the “ Star Spangled Banner” on the 1st and 3rd base line. They were blaring it. We went on to the field and started to warm up. Soon as we started to warm up the umpires stopped the game for 30 minutes,…

I stared in at my catcher, Drew Wessel, beads of sweat fell off my forehead. It was the bottom of the sixth and we were one out away from winning the World Series, he flashed me a two which meant curveball. I checked the runner, got my grip on the ball, and checked the runner again. I lifted my leg and let go of the ball. We were the last game of the tournament, it was August 1st and the daylight was just starting to slip behind the Rocky Mountains in center field. We were playing a team from…

“Strike Three!” I was playing a baseball game in Hudsonville Michigan. It was fall. The time when you can see red, yellow, orange, brown, and pink leaves twirl as they fall gracefully to the ground. Bright beams of of sunlight shine on the damp grass. The air was fresh but chilly. fans came from near and far to watch us play. My team was doing very well and part of the reason why was because I was pitching. I did not Know it yet, but I would Throw a no hitter. I could remember when…

that allowed Baseball to be exempt from the Sherman Act, as well as the three major court cases that have upheld its ruling over time. In 1913, when the Federal League of Base Ball Clubs came into existence, it challenged the preexisting American League and National League. The Federal League attempted to steal players away from the other two established leagues by removing the reserve clause that bound players to particular teams. The increased competition for players increased player…

bodybuilding or wrestling but in the last 10 years, Major League Baseball and steroids scandals have become linked. MLB players like former stars Mark Mcgwire and Jose Canseco as well as former NY Yankee Jason Giambi came clean and admitted to using steroids in their careers. The Mitchell Report, a file that was published by former US Senator George Mitchell that investigated the use of drugs in MLB was published in 2007 and revealed a number of big name players like Roger Clemens, Barry Bonds,…

I’ve been playing baseball ever since I could pick up a bat. Since then, I’ve been to countless practices and played in hundreds of games. Baseball is essentially a second life, and if you were to step into my room, for example, you’d see a childhood baseball bat leaning against my nightstand, several baseballs on my dresser and scattered on the floor, and a picture of Wrigley Field displayed on my wall. I spent most of my summer travelling across the Southeast playing in tournaments in Atlanta,…