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The History of Baseball
All about the Ball Game The sport of baseball evokes more nostalgia among the American people than any other sport. So many people played the game as children (or play its close relative, softball) that it has become known as "the national pastime." It is also a very democratic game. Unlike football and basketball, baseball can be played well by people of average height and weight.
Baseball probably originated before the American Civil War (1861-1865) as rounders, a simple game played on sandlots. Early champions of the game fine-tuned it to include the kind of skills and mental judgment that made cricket respectable in England. In particular, scoring and record-keeping gave baseball gravity. "Today," notes John Thorn in The Baseball Encyclopedia, "baseball without records is inconceivable." More Americans undoubtedly know that Roger Maris's sixty-one home runs in 1961 broke Babe Ruth's record of sixty in 1927 than that President Ronald Reagan's 525 electoral-college votes in 1984 broke President Franklin Roosevelt's record of 523 in 1936. |
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| In 1871 the first professional baseball league was born. By the beginning of the 20th century, most of the bigger cities in the eastern United States had a professional baseball team. The teams were divided into 2 leagues, the National and American; during the regular season, a team played only against other teams within its league. The most victorious team in each league was said to have won the "pennant;" the 2 pennant winners met after the end of the regular season in the World Series. The winner of at least 4 games (out of a possible 7) was the champion for that year. This arrangement is still in place today, although the leagues are now subdivided and pennants are decided in post-season playoff series between the winners of each division. |
Baseball came of age in the 1920s, when Babe Ruth (1895-1948) led the New York Yankees to several World Series titles and became a national hero on the strength of his home runs (balls that cannot be played because they have been hit out of the field). Over the decades, every team has had its great players.
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