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Dona Herweck Rice

Batter Up! History of Baseball Rice

Baseball Baseball

Batter Up!

History of

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Cover LOC [LC-USZ62-135437]; p.4 top to bottom: Tomas Jasinskis/Shutterstock; Rusty Kennedy/

AP; p.p5 left to right: Chad McDermott/Shutterstock; David Lee/Shutterstock; p.6 top to bottom:

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Reprinted 2013

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Publishing Credits

Dona Herweck Rice, Editor-in-Chief

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Table of Contents

In the Big Inning ...............................

The Rules ....................................

Dressed to Play Ball ...........................

Leagues of Their Own ..........................

The World Series ..............................

Little League ..................................

Baseball Greats ...............................

Baseball Firsts ................................

Glossary ...................................... 30

Index ........................................ 31

About the Author .............................

In the Big Inning

Take a bat, a ball, a mitt, and a warm summer day. Put them all

together, and youve got the great game of baseball!

Big Inning?

The chapter title In the Big Inning

is a pun . It sounds like In the

Beginning, but it uses a section

of a baseball game an inning

to make a joke. There are nine

innings in a baseball game.

But baseball hasnt always existed. Who invented the game? Who

wrote the rules? Who wore the first uniform and glove? Who hit the first

home run, and when was the first World Series played? We know the

answers to some of these things. Others we dont know, and for some we

can only make a guess.

National

Pastime

Baseball is called Americas

national pastime. That is

because it is one of the most

popular sports in the United

States, both to play and

to watch.

children playing Little

League baseball

As far as we know, games with sticks, balls, and bases have been played

for centuries. Baseball seems to have grown naturally from these games.

It wasnt invented by just one person. Many people think that it came

from the British games rounders and cricket . As early as the 1700s, people

were playing some form of these games.

Before Baseball

Cricket is a game with many

similarities to baseball. Cricket

is played outside with players

on each team. They use bats,

a ball, and wickets, which are

stick-like targets.

adults playing professional cricket

People today usually think that Abner Doubleday invented baseball.

Its no wonder. After Doubleday died, a man named Abner Graves

claimed he saw Doubleday invent the game in 1839.

He said that Doubleday made the first baseball

diamond in a field in Cooperstown, New York.

Abner

Doubleday

Doubleday may not have

invented baseball, but he was

a great man nonetheless. After

graduating from West Point in

1842, he immediately began a

distinguished military career.

Eventually, he became an

honored major general.

Even though Abner Doubleday didnt

invent baseball there, Cooperstown is still

considered to be baseballs hometown.

Abner Doubleday

(1819 1893)

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