Why reseachers are not completely sure about the origins of baseball?
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since the beginning of mankind, people have been hitting round objects with a stick and running.  who could ever pinpoint an exact date when u think about it that way?
1107242
I love baseball, but I have no idea what you are actually asking.
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I played ball a bit before seminary.  There is a lot of superstition in the minds of some players (not stepping on a chalk baseline, eating the same foods before each game, using the same glove, not washing your jersey when you are on a hitting streak, etc.)\n\nAnd some of the players I have known were Christians, too... and they still prayed for "victory" - so - I would have to say, "yes" - religion and superstition are mixed a bit in baseball.
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In wriggley field it was the first that was built....The first base "dugout" was just a bench. The home team really got advantage....The Sun could also be the cause. But at historic Wrigley Field the 3rd Base dugout was the the first dugout to be built.
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They change balls really often.  It's because they're worried about the ball being scuffed or damaged during the game.  The ump wants to ensure that the game isn't swayed in favor of either team.
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Cricket by a long way. In it's modern form it can be dated back at least until the 1660's, but probably until the 13th century. There is now evidence to suggest a similar game was even played in ancient Rome!\nAs for baseball, the earliest known mention of the sport is in a 1744 British publication, A Little Pretty Pocket-Book, by John Newbery. It contains a wood-cut illustration of boys playing "base-ball". Rounders was actually only codified in the 1840's, so it is hard to say if baseball came from Rounders or not.
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That the idea in and of itself was not interesting enough to draw attention from North American fans.. It takes more then the novelity of players representing their homelands to draw attention for the N.A. fan. MLB still thinks that it's the predominant sports league and anything it does will be a success. One day, they will wake up and wonder why no one is in the stands, and why they've gone the way of boxing and horse racing.
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I wouldn't consider catching a baseball miraculous, has to do with physics, gravity, eye-hand coordination. No, that would not be a miracle, that would be compentency.\nAnyways, people are quick to dismiss miracles because acknowledging that it was in fact a miracle implies that there is a higher being above us having a guiding hand in the lives we live. So its only fitting that they would not acknowledge such "miracles" and simply cast them off as coincidence or give simple explanations.
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Baseball is thought to be a direct descendant of cricket, rounders, and town ball (which was much like rounders). The first explicit references to baseball appear to come from England. The earliest known mention of the sport is in a 1744 publication, A Little Pretty Pocket-Book by John Newbery. It contains a wood-cut illustration of boys playing "baseball" (showing a similar set-up to the modern game) and a rhymed description of the sport. Also, a British letter dating from 1748 by Lady Hervey describes how the then Prince of Wales diverted his time playing baseball.\n\nAnother early mention of the game can be found in an 1886 edition of Sporting Life magazine, in a letter from Dr. Adam Ford of Denver, Colorado, formerly of St. Marys, Ontario, Canada, who details a base ball game played in Beachville, Ontario, Canada, on June 4, 1838 -- Militia Muster Day.\n\nAlexander Cartwright had a hand in compiling and publishing an early list of rules in 1845 (the so-called Knickerbocker Rules) to meet the demands of the already popular sport, and today's rules of baseball have evolved from them.\n\nProfessional baseball began in the United States around 1865, and the National League was founded in 1876 as the first true major league, quickly producing famous players such as Honus Wagner. Several other major leagues formed and failed, but the American League, established in 1901 as a major league and originating from the minor Western League (1893), did succeed. While the two leagues were rivals who actively fought for the best players, often disregarding one another's contracts and engaging in bitter legal disputes, a modicum of peace was established in 1903, they began playing a World Series that year.\n\nCompared to modern times, games in the early part of the 20th century were lower scoring and pitchers were more successful. The "inside game", whose nature was to "scratch for runs", was played rather more violently and aggressively than it is today. Ty Cobb said of his era especially, "Baseball is a war!" This period, which has since become known as the "dead-ball era", ended in the 1920s with several rule changes that gave advantages to hitters and the rise of the legendary baseball player Babe Ruth, who showed the world what power hitting could produce and thus changed the nature of the game.\n\nDuring the first half of the 20th century, a "gentlemen's agreement" in the form of the baseball color line effectively barred African-American players from the major leagues (though not Native Americans, oddly enough), resulting in the formation of several Negro Leagues. Finally in 1947, Major League Baseball's color barrier was broken when Jackie Robinson was signed by the National League's Brooklyn Dodgers. Although it was not instantaneous, baseball has since become fully integrated.\n\nBaseball has often been a barometer of the fabled American "melting pot", as immigrants from different regions have tried to "make good" in various areas including sports. In the 19th century, baseball was populated with many players of Irish or German extraction. A number of Native Americans had successful careers especially in the early 1900s. Italians and Poles appeared on many rosters during the 1920s and 1930s. Black Americans came on strong starting in the late 1940s after the barriers had been lifted, and continue to form a significant contingent. By the 1960s, Hispanics had started to make the scene, and had become a dominant force by the 1990s. In the 21st century, East Asians have been appearing in increasing numbers.\n\nThe middle of the century led major league baseball to the West of the United States and also became a time when pitchers dominated. Scoring became so low in the American League, due to pitching dominance, that the designated hitter was introduced; this rule now constitutes the primary difference between the two leagues.\n\nDespi
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The game of cricket has a known history spanning from the 16th century to the present day, with international matches played since 1844, although the official history of international Test cricket began in 1877. During this time, the game developed from its origins in England into a game which is now played professionally in most of the Commonwealth of Nations.\n\nNo one knows when or where cricket began but there is a body of evidence, much of it circumstantial, that strongly suggests the game was devised during Saxon or Norman times by children living in the Weald, an area of dense woodlands and clearings in south-east England that lies across Kent and Sussex. It is generally believed that cricket survived as a children's game for many centuries before it was increasingly taken up by adults around the beginning of the 17th century.
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Its extremely different. For one, you don't run the bases as you do in baseball. And I do believe one person can keep hitting........and hitting.........and hitting. But what do I know? *shrugs*
556602
what's this have to do with baseball?
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go to answers.com and just type baseball.\nanswers.com gives results compiled from all encyclopedias and other relevant sources. I checked there and its search result on baseball gives a very good and detailed account of baseball history.
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Why Does'nt Asians/English/Aussies play Baseball? If you say.."some do play" then I would say too.. "some do play" lol\n\nAmericans wanted everything different when they broke from their mother country UK... and attained Independence..like say.. Left-hand Drive, Left side of the road etc..  So, They invented a different form of Cricket called "Baseball"
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A.J. Spaulding (of Spaulding sporting goods fame and also the first comissionare of baseball) wanted Baseball to be an American invented game. So in his book on the history of baseball he credits Abner Doubleday with inventing the game. Doubleday however should only be credited with the layout of the bases as we know them today.\n\nA few summers ago a old law was found in a small town in Mass. that predates the year Doubleday supposedly invented baseball. The law outlaws the playing of baseball at certain times of the day. So there was a form of baseball in the US before the base layout of Doubleday as we know it.\n\nIn Britain there was a game called baseball and other games called one old hat and two old hat that have similiarities to baseball and may be how the game was introduced to the US.\n\nThe game has under gone many changes since the start. With the mound moved back from 40 feet to 50 feet to 60.5 feet, the mound dropped from 16 inches to 10 inches, the pitch was initially underhand, the ball was smaller in diameter and so on. So no matter where the game was invented and when, it really is an American invention.
167539
Is this a baseball question?
667879
why is this question under baseball?