Friday, March 25, 2011

How Baseball Started

By Joe Harden


Do not believe it when you hear everybody say that Abner Doubleday came up with the popular sport of baseball as much as it is what most people think.

First and foremost, after all this time of people saying that Doubleday is the one, there really is no solid proof that can put it up without a doubt. In fact, so many people have argued the topic that naturally a bunch had to go and research as to where baseball really hails from.

In the end most of the people who researched the matter came to the conclusion that the credit should go to Alexander Joy Cartwright.

The biggest noticable piece to the puzzle comes from the fact that at the time when the sport came about, the most commonly spread games in those years were those brought by boat by the pioneers and pilgrims. These were accounted to be cricket and rounders.

Alexander Cartwright who lived in that period observed that he did not like rounders as it was because it was not exactly a sport he could call formal. As a result he therefore decided to give its rules a few tweaks and then called it baseball. He took a lot of the rules that were in baseball but he added a lot of his own rules as well. As the years flew by and the game became more and more popular other rules popped up from here and there to polish it up into what it is today.

Since it is almost a rule that wherever there is baseball there should be hotdogs, the next interesting topic would be so how did the hotdogs come about .

At the top of this list of course has to be the world famous hotdogs. It never seems normal to be at the ball park without this snack in your hand but where did it all begin?

If you try to trace it all the way back to its beginning you will find that it was a culinary delight made by one of Caesar's emperial cooks. We also cannot end this without giving a round applause to peanuts and cracker jacks.




About the Author:



No comments:

Post a Comment

Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...