The History of Baseball Essays - Baseball Rules, Team Sports

Steven Wolfert Core:1 The History Of Baseball Now a thriving industry,baseball has come very far from it bad beggining. Today all around the world proffesional and non-proffesional players play baseball,or a similar version of bat and ball games.There have been many versions of bat and ball games played such as baseball,lapa(Russia),rounders,(England)cricket,and town ball(Germany). In the early 1800's people made the first pair of rules for Round ball,these rules were that each team pitched to themselves, bases were run in a clockwise direction and players could be out by swinging and missing three pitched balls or by being hit with the ball while moving between bases.According to 19century baseball.com,Alexander J. Cartwright is known as the father of baseball,because he trained a team called the knickerbonckers. Cartwright wrote twenty rules, which were published and known as the "20 Original Rules of Baseball". The first recorded game played under the Knickerbocker Rules, and took place on June 19, 1846, when the Knickerbocke rs lost to the N.Y Baseball Club,23?1 in four innings.This also became known as the first ever recorded baseball game. In 1860 a Foul Ball Post was to be placed 100 feet from both third and first base in line with home base. The post was used to help the judge decide whether a batted ball landed in fair or foul ground. Player Henry Chadwick suggested that the correct size of the bases should be 17 inches by 14 inches. It is not known if bases these dimensions were ever used. The oldest bat and ball games were played in Egypt around 2000 years ago.