There are many traditions in my family that we take part in. Some are sports such as baseball, basketball and football. others are holiday traditions such as Christmas and the Fourth of July. Many people have traditions that have been passed down from their ancestors but some traditions are what they have created as a family. I have lots of each of these but a few that I have chosen are Christmas traditions like Christmas trees and stockings. Others are baseball or the fourth of July. We all have traditions we love doing and many we all share with each other. First I will talk about baseball. Baseball is said to be the national pastime of America. Baseball dates back all the way to the 19th century some say it started in England …show more content…
a little bit after the war ended there was a baseball player name Jackie Robinson. he was the first black man to play professional baseball with other white men. everybody hated him and wanted to get him out but little did they know he would revolutionize the sport.
Like baseball, Basketball is a beloved american sport. Although it was made in the U.S.A. it was made by a Canadian doctor James Naismith. The sport goes even further back than this though. It was about 500 years ago and the Mexican Aztecs and Mayan people would play a similar sport where instead of a basketball they would use a decapitated skull of their defeated foes. the first basketball game that we play and know was on January 20th 1892. James Naismith made the sport for YMCA to play when it was cold in the winter. they would use two peach baskets on each side of the court. Some of the original rules were changes such as in the original sport they could not bounce the ball. there were originally 13 rules 9 of which have been modified and the rest have been disregarded. The first game consisted of 18 players with nine players to a team. They would use a soccer ball because the YMCA did not have the money to buy a ball. The first competitive leagues were all local games accept some times they would travel to play other teams. Now people all over the world play Basketball because it is easy you do not need equipment accept a hoop and a ball.
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Baseball is known for being Americas Pastime, because of how great the history this sport carries behind it and how it was created almost a two-hundred years ago. Abner Doubleday invented baseball, though they claim, in 1839 and was also a Civil War hero. This is not true, and many people believe that he was the inventor. “There really is not a true inventor of the sport, it really came from two English sports, which are rounders and cricket that originated in the eighteen-hundreds. When the American Revolution happened different variations of the English games rounders and cricket were being played all over America and those games made a new one, baseball.”
According to a passage in the 19th Century Baseball website, author Eric Miklich writes that America’s pastime may have originated in Canada. Miklich tells the story of Dr. Adam E. Ford who wrote a letter about a game which had been played in 1838 which was described to have several key differences than baseball. Many people believe that baseball evolved from games played in England- mainly cricket and rounders. Others believe the German game of town ball is where it all started. October 6, 1845 was the first baseball game on record. One of the teams playing that day were the New York Knickerbockers. The Knickerbockers, led by “The Father of Baseball” Alexander Cartwright, are known today as the first official baseball team. Cartwright published the original rules of baseball (Miklich). Throughout the years, baseball has seen it’s fair share of great players and managers while evolving into the sport we know and love today, but not without controversy.
Baseball has been part of American history for well over 150 years now. It is considered to be America’s pastime, meaning it is what people loved to do in their off time back in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Baseball was invented by Abner Doubleday in Cooperstown, New York in 1839. Back then baseball was much different than today. Different rules, balls, and equipment than in today’s age. As baseball developed things changed such as the rules and equipment. Better equipment was put into place to help enhance the performance of the ball players. Baseball has become a sport of scouting. More and more scouts come to watch kids play in college and high school in hopes to find that one player that would be
Baseball originates back to 1800s, from a man named Abner Doubleday, who was a Union Officer during the American Civil War. Some say he invented the game in Cooperstown, New York, in 1839. There’s limited amount of information and facts on Doubleday being the original creator of the game. A more accurate response to the question of how baseball originates would be that many scholars believe that baseball was invented way before we can tell. In ancient cultures, such as those of the Persians and Egyptians, there is evidence of games being played with balls and sticks. Games similar to baseball continued to be played by civilizations throughout history but it was not until the early 1600s that Europeans first brought games involving a ball and a stick to the Americas. There were a number of various games played with a ball and a stick but the one that most resembled baseball was an English game called Rounders. The rules of Rounders are a lot simpler than the ones of modern day baseball but it was from
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 game of baseball has been intertwined in our history. It has been there though the wars and though the civil rights movements. The game has seen it all. There have been great players who have put their career’s on hold to fight for their country. “More than 500 major league baseball players during World War II, including stars like Ted Williams, Stan Musial and Joe DiMaggio”. But maybe none more important to our country than Jackie Robinson. As Robinson was making his debut in baseball the country was starting up another crucial civil rights movement. many people credit Robinson for breaking the color barrier in baseball in 1947 as the moment that kicked off the civil rights movements of the
Baseball grew out of various ball and stick games that had been played throughout the United States during the first half of the 19th century. It was a game that was played in small towns to big cities, people of all ages played and of all social classes. Common laborers would play with bank presidents and doctors. During the Civil War both Yankee and Rebel
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 National Basketball Association fan base grows day by day, and is slowly passing the National Football League as America's most popular sport. The game of basketball as it is known today was created by Dr. James Naismith in December 1891 in Springfield, Massachusetts, to condition young athletes during cold months. The idea behind Naismith's game was to maneuver a soccer ball by dribbling it up the court and then passing it to an open teammate who would attempt to shoot the ball into a peach basket. It was a gentle game that did not involve physical contact. High school and college teams started to play basketball.
Baseball is considered to be Americas all time past time, it is considered to be the oldest sport to still be played in the United States. Baseball has been called many names over the years including town ball, goal ball, and round ball. Some even believe that Baseball originated in England and gained popularity in the United States. However, others may believe that Abner Doubleday a Union soldier from the Civil War may have invented or created baseball. Consequently, there is no documentation proving he invented the game, furthermore he never claimed to have anything to do with the game. Unfortunately, Baseball is more than142 years old and for a third of those years blacks were excluded from participating in the sport that is considered to
With all the different sports America has today, baseball is America’s pastime. It might not be the most popular sport in America today, but it is what started America’s interest in sports. Baseball started out as an amateur sport and had an unorganized set of rules. The Knickerbockers Base Ball Club of New York was the first organized baseball team to have a set of rules (Mondout) and some of those rules are still used in today’s game. This club made the first twenty rules of baseball. Sense then the rules has become more and more complex as time went on. The first league was introduced in 1976, and it was called The National League. The national league was made up of sixteen teams, and this is when the rules started to change frequently.
It is among the earliest and oldest sports played in America. It specifically originated in Central America with the Mexicans in the Southern part of Mexico. Different towns thrived in this game which was to them more than a sport. It was both a sport, a religious activity and it was also political. It was also social because it brought the people in towns together.
Sports started out as a way for Americans to have fun while they were not working, but as
Traditions are really important in my family it brings us all together in a fun way. One of my families many traditions is on the Fourth of July we have a big party for my mom’s side of the family. We get together and we have hot dogs, burgers,and chips. We play volleyball, kickball ,and talk till it’s dark then set off fireworks.
In 1866 just before the family was to leave for America she was badly burned. Some of