Story of Baseball
Title: Story of Baseball
Category: /Recreation & Sports
Details: Words: 962 | Pages: 4 (approximately 235 words/page)
Story of Baseball
Category: /Recreation & Sports
Details: Words: 962 | Pages: 4 (approximately 235 words/page)
Baseball
Baseball has been providing us with fun and
excitement for more than a hundred and fifty years. The
first game resembling baseball as we know it today was
played in Hoboken ,New Jersey, on June 19, 1846. The
New York Nine beat the New York Knickerbokers that day, 23-1.
The game was played according to rules drawn up by
Alexander J. Cartwright. A surveyer and amateur athlete.
It is a myth that Abner Doubleday1 invented baseball.
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years? Since Alexander Cartwright first laid
out the dimentions of the playing field and drew up the
rules of the game, it has furnished enjoyment and excite-
ment for countless millions of people, young and old alike.
Bibliography
Bibliography
Ritter, Lawrence S. Story of baseball . New York:
Beech Tree Paperback Book, 1999
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Jacobs,William Jay .They Shaped The Game .
New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1994
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Kahn, Roger . Memories of Summer. New York:
Hook Slide, Inc., 1997
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Internet: AOL, 2000