BASEBALL

BASEBALL

The popular game that gained fame as being America is none other than the brisk game of baseball. There are many controversies and debate that go with the origin of baseball. Cricket, Baseball, softball running games and rounders are believed to have taken shape from primitive type of community games. Even though the name has no clear relation many games were popularly played that somewhat resemble modern day baseball. There were different ball games that were known by amusing names like stool ball, goal ball and even poison ball. Earlier,during the mid-18th century baseball was being played in England. Later this game was brought by immigrants to North America and the modern version of baseball was developed. Baseball was recognized as the national sports of the United States in the late 19th century. Baseball is now very popular in North America and parts of Central and South America, the Caribbean, and East Asia.

A few historical sources point that in the year 1700, Thomas Wilson who was considered an conformist leader in England condemned the game of baseball and a few other sports that took place every Sunday. There are interesting facts related to baseball. One of such reports come from David block who says that stool ball was the primitive version of baseball and dates it even back to 1672.

It leads our curiosity to the game of stool ball. It is said that in the game, a batting player was made to stand in front of a target, a stool, while another player pitched a ball. If the batting player hit the ball and was caught in field by a player, he was considered to be out of the game. Also, somewhat similar to cricket, if the ball hit the stool where the batting player stood, he was again supposed to be out. Young men and women were known to indulge into the sport.