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