| Baseball is probably the most watched sport in | | | | to bat, the players are getting better but the game |
| America today. The way the game is played is two | | | | is still the same. Maybe they need to start making |
| teams are formed with 9 players each. The pitcher | | | | the fields larger so it makes it harder for those good |
| will try to haul the baseball to the batter. The pitcher | | | | players to get a lot of home runs. |
| is trying to strike out the batter, three strikes and | | | | After the world wars baseball was a world wide |
| your out but the batter can hit the ball. The other 8 | | | | sport and everyone wanted to play it. By then there |
| person playing with the pitcher are the 1st baseman, | | | | were so many teams that they could have a baseball |
| 2nd baseman, 3rd baseman, shortstop, left fielder, | | | | world series which didn't start till later on down the |
| center fielder, right fielder and the catcher which | | | | road. There were baseball teams from all over the |
| catches the ball that the pitcher throws unless the | | | | world like Puerto Rico, Cuba, Netherlands, Australia , |
| batter hits the ball. | | | | Africa, south Africa, Europe, England, great Brittan, |
| People will argue where the sport was originated but | | | | anywhere that you could think of as a country there |
| the real origin of baseball lies here in the good old | | | | was a baseball team for it that's how popular baseball |
| United States. The game was played here back to | | | | got after the world wars ended. If you wanted to |
| the early part of the 19th century, but back then it | | | | play all you had to do in those days was go try out |
| was all white baseball no other players could play until | | | | and if you could run and catch the ball with ease and |
| the 60s and 70s came around where they allowed all | | | | actually hit the ball when you batted you were going |
| players to try out and could play if they were good | | | | to be on the team. |
| enough. | | | | That's just how it was back in those days; they just |
| The National League was formed in 1876 where they | | | | wanted players so they could player each others |
| started first playing baseball. After that more leagues | | | | teams and have something to talk about every day. |
| and teams were added on and they started to play | | | | Back then all you heard talk about all day was |
| more and more of baseball and soon it grew to what | | | | baseball. Now today all you hear about is news about |
| we now know today as baseball. With Barry bonds | | | | the Iraq war and occasionally talk of baseball. The big |
| and Alex Rodriguez hitting home runs every time up | | | | talk on baseball at the moment is the steroid issue. |