Baseball
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Originally created by an unknown person this game consists of nine players on each team. Unless you have a designated hitter. This abomination also known as the DH detracts from the purity of the game. Except for Big Papi. He's a beast.
History
The origins of the game are unknown, but "base-ball" or "base ball" was being played, under that name, during the Civil War:
- Captain Kimberly was an experienced and skillful player and base ball player and took the lead in inaugurating a series of games of base ball.[1]
- The air seemed full of heavy shot, and as the flew they could be seen as plainly as a base-ball in one of our games.[2]
A 1902 book about Philadelphia says that "base-ball" was simply a new name for an older game:
- During the Civil War there was an interesting athletic development when the old game of "town-ball" was rechristened "base-ball." It is believed that the first town-ball club, called the Olympic, was established in 1833.[3]
Notes and references
- ↑ Nash, Eugene Arus (1910) A History of the Forty-fourth Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry, in the Civil War, 1861-1865, p. 166
- ↑ Johnson, Robert Underwood and Clarence Clough Buel (1888), Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, Volume IV, p. 37
- ↑ Edmond, Franklin Spencer, History of the Central High School of Philadelphia p. 251