The Legend Of Baseball

Baseball is a game that is played everywhere; in parks and schools, by small children, amateurs and millionaire professionals. It is a game that test speed, accuracy, and ability. Americans have played baseball for more than 200 years and since the beginning of time, it has evolved. In the history of American sports, there is the story of baseball's invention by a man named Abner Doubleday. The theory or legend that baseball was created in the U.S. was supported by Chicago Cubs president, Albert Spalding and the National League president, Abraham G. Mills. According to the myth, he set up the first baseball game in the year 1839, in Cooperstown, New York. A mining engineer by the name of Abner Graves made a claim in the press stating that
Because of the numerous types of baseball, or rather games similar to it, the origin of the game has been a topic of debate for decades by sport historians all over the world. These sport historians have discovered evidence showing that American baseball evolved out of various ball-and-stick games that had been played in many areas of the world, even before recorded history.
Russia had a version of baseball called Lapta, which can be dated back to the fourteenth century. It is comprised of two teams, with five to ten members, a pitcher, and batter. The ball would be thrown to the player with the stick “batter” and he would attempt to hit it with a short stick and then run to the opposite side and back before being hit by the
Its most direct ancestors appear to be English game called rounders, which was a children’s game brought to New England by the earliest colonists. Rounders, which shares more similarities to baseball, dates back to Tudor times (1485-1603) in England. This game consisted of two teams, with six to fifteen players, including a pitcher, batter, bowling square, hitting square and four posts which is similar to bases used in baseball. Each player had to bat in each of the "inning" and the game lasted for two innings. The pitcher would tossed the ball to the person holding the bat, and he then attempted to hit it. If the batter made contact with the ball, the batter ran to the first post. Points were earned depending on what post was reached and how was the post reached.
Another English game is cricket. The first cricket match to be documented took place in Sussex, England in 1697. Cricket is played in a large open circular field and consisted of two sides each containing eleven players that would attempt to "put out" the batsman. The batsman tries to prevent a ball thrown by a "bowler" from knocking over "bales" placed on three upright sticks. If the batsman makes contact with the ball, he runs to the opposite side of the "pitch" and continues running back and forth until the ball is retrieved by the opposing