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Baseball shares its origins with cricket, which was brought to England in the 14th century. By the 18th century, a game called baseball was being played in England. However, the modern game of baseball developed in the United States in the mid-19th century. Alexander Cartwright is credited with establishing the first codified rules and organizing the first recorded baseball game in 1846. The game continued to grow in popularity and professionalize in the United States in the late 19th century, and Americans helped spread the sport internationally in the late 19th and early 20th centuries through organized tours and expatriate players.

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Grade 8 Powerpoint

Baseball shares its origins with cricket, which was brought to England in the 14th century. By the 18th century, a game called baseball was being played in England. However, the modern game of baseball developed in the United States in the mid-19th century. Alexander Cartwright is credited with establishing the first codified rules and organizing the first recorded baseball game in 1846. The game continued to grow in popularity and professionalize in the United States in the late 19th century, and Americans helped spread the sport internationally in the late 19th and early 20th centuries through organized tours and expatriate players.

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BASEBALL

ORIGIN OF BASEBALL
Baseball and Rounders share the same origin with Cricket, a
game that was imported by Flemish shepherds (krick in their
language means club or stick) to England in the 14th century
but became an organized sport only in the 17th century. there
is clear evidence that in the 18th century a game called Baseball
was played in England. In “Northanger Abbey” (a book that
was published posthumous in 1818, but was written in the
1790’s), British author Jane Austen describes Catherine Morlan
as a woman who prefers cricket, baseball riding on horseback
and running about the country to books.
German author Johann Gutsmuth wrote in 1796 a
book on popular pastimes in which he mentions a
game called English Baseball.
This is not enough to conclude that the game we
know today as Baseball is a British game. Actually,
there is a game named British Baseball. It is still
played in Wales and features two teams of 11
players and there is no pitcher, but a bowler as in
Cricket. Each team plays 2 innings and an inning
is complete when all 11 players have had a chance
at bat. A run is scored every time a player gets to a
base.
BASEBALL 18TH CENTURY

Al Spalding, a former pitcher and a world known sport


goods manufacturer, found the perfect story: a man
named Abner Doubleday (an army officer who was a
hero during the Seminoles Wars and was going to be a
General in the American Civil War) invented the game
of Baseball in 1839 in a city called Cooperstown, the
first one of the United States inhabited only by natives.
A story that is way too perfect and that Doubleday
himself never claimed.
The invention of Baseball by Doubleday was probably
invented by Baseball, but there is little doubt that he
contributed to the idea of the field (or diamond) as we
know it know. The real inventor of the rules of the
game is a book seller from New York: Alexander
Cartwright, who founded a team called The
Knickerbockers in 1839, wrote the rules in 1845 (and the
Congress in 1953 certified what he did) and organized
the first game in the United States on 19th of June 1846
in Hoboken, New Jersey. The game was not the first
played in North America, though. The first game of
Baseball played in the New World dates back to June
1838 and was played in Ontario, Canada.
, Baseball became the first professional sport. In 1850
the National Association of Baseball Players (NABBP)
was born, the National League was alive and kicking in
1876.
Americans tried immediately to make it a World Game.
In 1878 a professional player named Esteban Bellan
introduced the game in Cuba (that exported Baseball in
the whole Caribbean) and in 1870 bats and balls arrived
in Japan (from there quickly reached Korea and Taiwan)
thanks to Horace Wilson. Games were organized in
Australia, New Zealand and South Pacific in 1888 and
1889
. In February 1889 a tour organized by Albert
Spalding took the game to Italy. A championship
was played in England in the late 18th century.
The game really became international in the 20th
century. By 1903 in the USA the American League
began challenging the National League in the
World Series. Organized Baseball Leagues started
spreading all over the World: 1922 in The
Netherlands, 1934 in Australia, 1936 in Japan,
1938 in Puerto Rico, 1945 in Venezuela and
Mexico, 1948 in Italy.

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