Founders Of Baseball

19th Century Baseball: Alexander Cartwright Versus Abner Doubleday
      Since the latter half of the nineteenth century, the game of Baseball has evolved ever so dramatically.   From the time the game was invented, rules have been added, and newer specialties have been introduced.   Equipment has been improved, and ballparks have been built all over the country.   Baseball has evolved, and will continue to prosper.   The talent pool is changing so rapidly, and players are getting better and better.   The entire objective of the game has evolved from the late 1800s to now.   Once a game of simply tossing a ball to a batter who attempts to put it in play, has now become a pure competitive sport, where pitchers are trying to retire batters.   Of course, Baseball gets its roots from “Rounders” and “Cricket,” which were two popular games primarily played in England and the British colonies in North America ("Alexander Cartwright." Biographies).   Supposedly,a myth was generated about a man named Abner Doubleday who had drawn pictures of baseball fields in 1839 in a classroom one day, and because of this, was named the inventor of baseball by a commission.   However in 1846, a man named Alexander Joy Cartwright generated a variation of these two European games, taught it to people in towns that he had met to hopefully catalyze the growth of this amazing pastural game, and earned him the right to be named the “Father of Modern Baseball.”
      To most Historians, the origins of baseball seem to be somewhat scattered over a period of about ten to twenty years.   What is certain, though, is that Baseball has its distinct roots derived from two games primarily played in England.   These two games are known as Cricket and Rounders.   Cricket, which has been played for centuries now, involves a general idea somewhat similar to that of modern day baseball.   “This game is usually played in a large, open circular field.   There are two sides, each consisting of about eleven players.   The...