HISTORY OF BASEBALL

BY: MAGGIE LAUZON

1839 •ABNER DOUBLEDAY INVENTED THE GAME OF

BASEBALL IN COOPERSTOWN, NEW YORK • HE WAS A CIVIAL WAR HERO AND 15 YEARS

AFTER HIS DEATH HE WAS DECLARED “THE FATHER OF THE GAME”

ABNER DOUBLEDAY

FIRST TEAM • THE FIRST TEAM WAS THE

NEW YORK KNICKERBOCKERS (FOUNDED ON SEPTEMBER 23,1845)• PRESIDENTS DOC ADAMS &

ALEXANDER CARTWRIGHT •CARTWRIGHT INVENTED THE

RULES TO THE GAME

RULES • ALEXANDER CARTWRIGHT INVENTED THESE

RULES • PROHIBITED SOAKING OR PLUGGING • IN OLDER RULES A FIELDER COULD PUT A RUNNER OUT BY HITTING THE RUNNER WITH A

THROWN BALL (LIKE KICKBALL)• THESE RULES REQUIRED FIELDERS TO TAG OR

FORCE THE RUNNER (AS DONE TODAY)• THIS RULE ENDED A LOT OF ARGUMENTS AND

FISTFIGHTS

Alexander Cartwright

1866

• VASSAR COLLEGE FIELDS THE FIRST EVER WOMEN'S BASEBALL TEAM

1867

• First recored curve ball thrown by Candy Cummings

1869

• CINCINNATI RED STOCKING BECOME FIRST EVER PROFESSIONAL TEAM

1882

• BEER AND WHISKEY LEAGUE IS CREATED UNDER THE NAME OF THE AMERICAN BASEBALL ASSOCIATION

1876

• NATIONAL LEAGUE IS CREATED WHEN CHICAGO WHITE STOCKINGS BEAT LOUISVILLE 4-0

1900

• AMERICAN LEAGUE IS FOUNDED

1884

• MOSSES FLEETWOOD WALKER IS THE FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN PLAYER IN MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL. THE LOUISVILLE SLUGGER WAS BORN

1904

• ALTA WEISS BECOMES THE FIRST WOMEN TO PLAY PROFESSIONAL BASEBALL FOR THE VERMILION INDEPENDENTS

1908

• TAKE ME OUT THE BALL GAME SONG WAS CREATED

1918

• STAR SPANGLED BANNER WAS SUNG AT A BASEBALL GAME FOR THE FIRST TIME

1920

• BOSTON RED SOX SELLS GEORGE HERMAN RUTH (BABE RUTH) TO THE NEW YORK YANKEES

1929

• BATH RUTH HITS IS 500TH HOME RUN • PASSED AWAY AUGUST 16TH, 1948

19211935

•BASEBALL WAS FIRST HEARD ON THE RADIO

1933

• CROSLET FIELD IN CINCINNATI HOSTED THE FIRST EVER NIGHT GAME

• FIRST ALL-STAR GAME 191

2• FENWAY PARK OPENS

1936

THE BASEBALL HALL OF FAME OPENS

• INDUCTING TY COBB, WALTER JOHNSON, CHRISTY MATHEWSON, BABE RUTH, HONUS WAGNER • IN COOPERSTOWN, NEW YORK • FOUNDED BY STEPHEN CARTON

CLARK

• JACKIE ROBINSON SIGN WITH THE BROOKLYN DODGERS IN 1945 • WAS AN AMERICAN MAJOR LEAGUE

BASEBALL SECOND BASEMAN WHO BECAME THE FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN TO PLAY IN THE MAJOR LEAGUES IN THE MODERN ERA. • THIS ENDED RACIAL SEGREGATION THAT

REGULATED BLACK PLAYERS TO THE NEGRO LEAGUES SINCE THE 1880’S

• PASSED AWAY IN 1972 • IN 1997 TO HONOR

JACKIE ROBINSON HIS NUMBER IS RETIRED FROM ALL MAJOR AND MINOR LEAGUE TEAMS

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