Baseball:
The Sport at the Turn of the Century
The legendary sport of baseball, what a fun pastime and great activity. But, where did it all start? Who came up with this great game? What were the people’s names that shaped what we know as baseball today? To call baseball just a sport, would be an understatement. The history of this great sport is almost as good as the game itself.
Baseball has been providing spectators and participants with fun and excitement for more than one hundred and fifty years. (Ritter) On June 19, 1846, in Hoboken, New Jersey the first game resembling baseball, as we know it today, was played. The New York Knickerbockers lost to the New York Nine on that day, 23-1. Alexander J. Cartwright, a surveyor and
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