User:WalterBaker4242/Histroy of Baseball

 History of Baseball 

Peanuts, cold beer, hotdogs, yelling fans and the famous song "take me out to the ballgame". I think you know what I'm talking about Baseball. It is Americas pastime sport and has been around for centuries.

What makes Baseball Americas past time you may ask? https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/origins_of_baseball Although much is unclear, as one would expect of children's games of long ago, this much is known: by the mid-18th century a game had appeared in the south of England which involved striking a pitched ball and then running a circuit of bases. "Base ball" was at least one name for this proto-baseball, although there may have been others. English colonists took this game to America with their other pastimes, and in the early 1800s variants were being played on both sides of the ocean under many appellations. However, the game was very significantly altered by amateur men's ball clubs in and around New York City in the middle of the 19th century, and it was this heavily revised sport that became modern baseball.