| Students try out in college baseball recruiting for a | | | | Knickerbockers. The author of these rules, |
| spot in college baseball teams. Due to the | | | | Alexander Joy Cartwright, is generally regarded as |
| immense popularity of baseball in the United | | | | "the father of baseball". |
| States, college baseball has a considerable | | | | Congress officially credited Cartwright in June 3, |
| following among college and high school students | | | | 1953, with inventing the modern game of baseball. |
| alike. Many of them, playing in their respective | | | | He has since been honored in the Baseball Hall of |
| home teams, hope to get recruited in the Major | | | | Fame. And while there are disputes as to what |
| Leagues. | | | | and how his role in establishing the rules in baseball |
| The origins of baseball are a little difficult to trace. | | | | extend to, Cartwright is widely recognized to |
| A number of folk games which have been played | | | | have succeeded in introducing the game in most |
| for years in England had characteristics similar to | | | | cities on his journey west to California, thus |
| modern baseball. Many of these games involved | | | | spreading the game and promoting the |
| throwing a ball at some sort of target, while a | | | | development of urban baseball clubs. |
| player on the opposite team tries to hit the ball to | | | | It is important for students to know more than |
| prevent it from hitting the said target. If the hit is | | | | the basics in order to succeed in college baseball |
| successful, the player could score additional points | | | | and to play in college baseball teams. Fortunately, |
| by running through certain designated points in the | | | | the Internet has proved to be a useful venue for |
| field, while other opposing players would attempt | | | | both athletes and coaches looking for promising |
| to catch or retrieve the ball to deter the runner | | | | players to participate in college baseball teams. |
| or put him completely out. However, since these | | | | D1Athletes is an online community wherein |
| were folk games, they had very generally simple | | | | athletes and coaches alike can share and |
| and generally not written down. | | | | exchange information they need concerning in |
| The first ever published rules for baseball were | | | | college baseball recruiting. D1Athletes offers them |
| set down in 1845. These were primarily intended | | | | a place to build an online presence and gain |
| for a New York-based ball club known as the | | | | important public exposure. |