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A Short Baseball History
by Regan Shaors
http://www.fleerbaseball.com

The game of baseball is said to have begun in the early 19th
century, but that's just half the truth. The game was played
much before but the first baseball clubs were formed around
that time. An Englishman named Alexander Cartwright in the
year 1845 devised the first set of rules baseball. In fact,
many of the rules listed out then are still used in the
game.

The first baseball league was formed by a group of
amateur players in 1958, It was called the National
Association of Baseball Players. And yes, in their very
first year, the National Association of Baseball Players
began charging admission to its baseball games.It was in
1868, however, that baseball hit its stride. The Civil War
was over and the Union had carried the game of baseball to
other parts of the country where it created quite a
sensation. In 1868 the National Association of Baseball
Players had delegates from well over 100 clubs across the
country.

Baseball hit its stride in 1868. After the Civil War was
over the Union had carried the game of baseball to other
parts of the country and created quite a sensation. There
were delegates from more than a hundred clubs from across
the country in 1868 in the National Association of Baseball
Players.

Even as late as 1960, rival leagues tried to make their way
into American baseball. All of them failed to leave any
significant mark, and the game is still ruled today by the
National and American leagues. And throughout the last part
of the 20th century, baseball became both a game of
strategy and hitting. Pitching and home run hitting,
though, are the baseball benchmarks of today. Baseball
teams are either big winners or big losers, depending on
the strength of their bullpens and their home run hitters.
And the cost of admission still continues to rise.

In the early 20th century the concentration was more on
hitting the home runs. Babe Ruth changed the course of the
game with his magical abilities to achieve home runs. It was
due to sportsmen like Babe Ruth that baseball achieved the
levels of popularity that it did. The popularity of Babe
Ruth also helped in improving the money in the game, since
people just went to watch Babe Ruth in action.

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