History of Baseball

Sport News 197-Many modern games that we enjoy today originated from the 19th century although there are historical reference game that can be attributed to those from ancient civilizations. But the history ob baseball can be situated in the mid-1800s when people who live in rural towns the United States practiced a game called "rounders" who will be the direct antecedent of Baseball.

Baseball is also known as the town ball, "the cat o" , and base ball, similar to a real game but with different rules. That was until 1982, when then first baseball club was established in New York, organized by Alexander Cartwright with the name Knickerbockers Base Ball Club. The members of this club were called Knickerbockers and they designed the 20 rules of the game of baseball, published in 1845, which is a basic rule of the game of modern baseball.

The first official baseball game between the Knickerbockers and another team was held on June 19, 1846 in New York Club, today Hoboken, New Jersey. However, the first professional baseball team was the Cincinnati Red Stockings who begin play in 1869. During the 19th century, baseball was mostly only popular in New York and the surrounding areas so that he is often referred to as the New York of his game.

Turn of the century witnessed the establishment of American Baseball League in Chicago in 1901. Then Ty Cobb was nicknamed the sensation of Georgia, after winning the first of nine consecutive batting title in the American League record set in 1907 when the Tigers beat the Athletics that year. In 1912, the first baseball stadium is built, the Tigers Stadium and the other is Fenway Park.

In the early decades of the 20th century George "Babe" Ruth is the best known as the "Sultan home run" so, the New York Yankees paid $ 125.000 to hire him in 1920. Babe Ruth's style was imitated by many hitters and the baseball become more popular than earlier today.

In 1924, with the addition of first baseman Bill Terry, Giants victory over the Dodgers play tough World Series baseball and soon become popular in Japan until now. The New York Yankees played the first game competition April 1936 with one of the biggest baseball players of all time, Joe Di Maggio. The New York Yankees eon the World Series 23 times.

Baseball became "King of Sports" for 1940-1950 and the national Cuban sport until now. Although many baseball players emerge over the next decade, it was until the 1970s when Reggie Jackson baseball celebrity like Joe Di Maggio and Babe Ruth in their time.

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