Japan Baseball History

The MLB didn’t start until 1876 with the National league and then they brought in the American league in 1901. The first World Series was held in 1903 with the Boston Americans beating the Pittsburg pirates 5-3. Baseball hasn’t always been glorified as it was though. It experienced rough times in the 1940’s when African Americans weren’t allowed to play in the major league but thanks to Jackie Robinson and Larry Doby, they eliminated the racial discrimination in baseball and outside the baseball world. Baseball has also experienced rough times during the WWII and Vietnam era. During the time of war, players would go and serve in the military and baseball would have to replace them with less talented players. But Upon return, baseball returned to its once prestige self.

World War II impacted baseball much as it did the rest of America; it took away workers and ball players alike. However, although some of the best players enlisted or were drafted into the military, baseball went on. It continued overseas and in America as well. The troops would play baseball whenever they got a chance, much like we read about during the civil war. Many of the most popular players even played on the navy and army’s baseball team (Baseball, 2010). In America, the major league had to find players to fill their empty spots. This ranged from older people long since retired from the game to fifteen-year-olds that should not have been at that level yet. The league even had a pitcher that had one leg. Whatever they could get their

For a 50-year period from 1903 to 1952, MLB's 16-team structure (split into the American and National Leagues) remained intact. No franchises were relocated during this period, and five markets—Boston, Chicago, New York City, Philadelphia, and St. Louis—had two or more teams. According to authors Andy McCue and Eric Thompson, "The less financially successful clubs in two-team cities were finding it increasingly difficult to compete" by the early 1950s.[1] In addition, population changes in the United States were leading to many citizens moving away from the Northeast, where many MLB teams were based, to southern and western locations.[1]

As this is where a majority of the Mexican American baseball clubs started popping up. Most Mexican Americans were fruit pickers or packers and employers used baseball to “potentially increase discipline, obeisance, and productivity of its immigrant workforce” (87). Additionally baseball was used as a tool for Americanization of the workforce. It brought the workforce together once a week. The thought behind it was that a happy workforce meant they would become a more productive

In 1869, the Cincinnati Red Stockings became the first professional baseball team, but the team dissolved after the 1870 season. The former Red Stockings manager and a couple of the players moved to Boston to join a newly formed team called the Boston Red Stockings. When the National League was created, the Red Stockings changed their name to the Beaneaters, and the team dominated baseball during the late 1800s. When the American League established another Boston team in 1901, many of the players for the Beaneaters went to the new Boston team. In 1907, this new team acquired Doves as its nickname, then in 1911, their name changed to the Rustlers. In 1912, the team settled on Braves as its nickname, and the team kept this name and are now known as the Atlanta Braves.

At the time, I was not impressed with the “American” sport, but now that I have read Stephen Jay Gould’s essay, “The Creation Myths of Cooperstown,” I will have something to say when the subject arises. Don’t get me wrong: I didn’t like America’s baseball then

The article “America’s Pastime” by Robert S. Fay and Tom Pfannoch, teaches readers about the history of baseball. The first unofficial baseball games were played in the early 1800’s, these games otherwise known as “town ball”. One of the earliest organizations to influence modernized baseball was the knickerbockers, the knickerbockers put together a set of rules and gave the game structure which helped standardize how the game is played today. Soon after, the game spread throughout the country and gained popularity among players and spectators as well, which led to the professional sport of baseball. Following the professionalization of the sport many leagues were formed, the present day MLB (Major League Baseball) has been considered America’s

Black American men were banned from being able to play professional baseball from the early 1900’s till the late 1940’s. This sparked the creation of what was known as the Negro Leagues. The first successful Negro League was formed in 1920 by Andrew "Rube" Foster (https:// negroleaguebaseball.com), but suspended operations in 1931 due to the financial hardships associated with the Great Depression (Baseball: An Illustrated History, G. Ward, Page 87). As the Great Depression ended and America got closer to WWII, the popularity of the Negro leagues grew. The creation of the Negro National League and the Negro American League represented the two premier Negro leagues in the 1930’s and 1940’s. They were just as organized as their white counterparts. They played a 140 game schedule, had their own all-star games, as well as their own World Series (Baseball: An Illustrated History, G. Ward, Page 247). The Negro leagues flourished during WWII. The white players of the professional teams were being drafted and their

The history of baseball in the United States can be traced to the 18th century, when amateurs played a baseball-like game by their own informal rules using improvised equipment. The popularity of the sport inspired the semipro national baseball clubs in the 1860s.

The first record of baseball in the United States began in Pittsfield, Massachusetts in 1791. Its popularity spread quickly through the town and the

There were separate teams for black players because they were not allowed to play on white professional teams. In the late 1800s, professional African American players played on all-black teams such as the Cuban Giants. But some baseball managers and owners of Major League teams wanted to hire African Americans. In order to get around the rules, they listed some black players as Hispanic or Native American. Baseball remained an independent sport well into the 1940s. In 1945, a talented young player named Jackie Robinson joined the Kansas City Monarchs in the Negro American League. He would become baseball's "great

The mens baseball league was in trouble when World War II started. The fans of baseball and citizens of the U.S. Did not like the idea of men getting paid to play baseball while loved ones sent to war so a certain Philip Wrigley owner of wrigleys gum and the Chicago cubs didn't think baseball would last. Shortly after Pearl Harbor got bombed by the Japanese and most of the male players went off to serve our country. The league owner wanted to end baseball but president Franklin Delano Roosevelt wrote a letter called the green light letter which stated that baseball was a great cheap family recreation that took about 2 and a half hours. This letter also stated that baseball was good for the economy giving people jobs and fun. The final item in the letter asked the judge to extend night games so day shift workers could watch too. Philip Wrigley and three other men Branch Rickey owner and president of the Brooklyn dodgers, Paul V. Harper Chicago attorney, and Ken Sells the President of the league decided that if they wanted baseball to continue the women would have to come play hard ball, but softball was already easily available so these four men set out to find a way to convince girls to play baseball, so Wrigley and the other men decided to combine the ideas of softball and baseball, they also decided to name the league the All-American Girls Baseball League (AAGBBL) but later changed it to the ALL-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL)

It is thought by many that baseball was first introduced to Dominicans by United States seamen stationed on this island, but this is false. Baseball was first introduced to Dominicans by the Cubans. This is because of the fact that baseball loving Cubans had to flee their country during the ten year war (1868-1878), and took refuge in the shores of the Dominican Republic, where they introduced baseball, and the sport moved inland. In 1921, the first ever pro teams were introduced to the Dominican Republic, showing the extremely high amounts of growth shown with the sport during the short time it had been in the country. This initial league had four different teams, all of which played in different cities around the Dominican Republic. This was short lived, as after only a few years after the league had started, and was starting to make money, Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, a ruthless dictator, decided he would combine two teams, and make one super team, named after himself (Trujillo Dragons.) This team went on to win the championship, but at a cost. Because of the large amounts of money spent on all these great players, the league went bankrupt, and was forced to close down for many years

The earliest known reference to baseball as we know it in America was in 1791 in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. There was an ordinance banning the play of the sport within 80yds a town meeting center. No one is exactly sure of the origins of baseball but many believe it to be a variation of the English game of “rounders”. The very first team to play the sport of baseball

The game of baseball became an organized sport in 1840 and 1850. Baseball is becoming more popular in America. For example, by 1860 the sport took the crown of America favorite sport over England cricket.