The sport of gymnastics has deep and broad historical roots. Countries known for advancing the sport, such as the United States, Rome and Russia, have produced numerous Olympic medalists. The Republic of the Philippines has not fared as well in gymnastics, and at the Olympics, Filipino competitors do better in the sport of boxing. Still, the nation has done much to support the sport of gymnastics.
Often referred to as Americas pastime, baseball has millions of fans spanning generations and has provided dynamic entertainment around the world for more than a century. Some of the reasons that people are drawn to the game ca...
The dugout is a part of baseball that goes largely unnoticed. Most popular American sports feature a bench on the sidelines for players and coaches who are not out on the playing surface. A major league dugout is unique in that...
Marvin Miller is one of the most important figures in baseball history, and one of the sport's most polarizing figures as well. As executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association from 1966 through 1983, he b...
Congress as a veterans organization. The American Legion operates several national youth programs to provide recreation, mentoring and character development. American Legion Baseball's long history as a national institution beg...
Baseball has even reached Australia, with several baseball clubs and leagues popping up all across the country known more for kangaroos and koala bears. Western Australia, in particular, has emerged as a baseball hotbed, with a...
Baseball is known as America's pastime and has played a part in U.S. culture for over 140 years. The game has made vast leaps since the 1840s, with the development of professional and amateur leagues all over the country. Major...
Centerfield is almost always the deepest part of a Major League baseball stadium. Outfield dimensions are usually shortest down the right field and left field foul lines, and they get longer toward the center of the field. Ther...
31, 1919. When Robinson was a young boy his family moved to Pasadena, where they experienced racial prejudice. Jackie Robinson was a competitive young man when playing games like tennis, marbles, soccer, football, and basketba...
For many years, Abner Doubleday was thought to have invented baseball, though the real story behind this man's involvement in America's favorite pastime isn't so cut and dry. "Abner Doubleday didn't invent baseball," says Harol...
Baseball's exact origins might be disputed, and although the English game of rounders clearly had a big influence, baseball's popularity never took off in Western Europe. Asian countries such as Japan, Korea and Taiwan ignored ...
Baseball equipment has changed dramatically through the history of the game. Protective equipment that barely existed in the early days of the game has become quite elaborate. The tools of the trade like the bat and glove have ...
Baseball developed in the United States in the mid-19th century, and was closely linked to the existing English game known as rounders. Baseball has remained a sport that is predominantly played in the U.S., although it has gai...
Early baseball borrowed much of its rules and terminology from popular European games, but it was in America that it solidified into a sport in its own right. Many modern rules of the game, including a game length of nine innin...
The history of baseball isn't just a list of great players, their statistics and great teams. The history of baseball can also be used to entertain and instruct kids. Baseball is a game of people whose mistakes intrigue childre...
The game of baseball is strongly associated with American culture. From its humble beginnings in the early 19th century, baseball has been a sport of the common man. wherever a rough diamond could be scratched out in the dirt, ...
The Republic of Korea, more commonly known as South Korea, has established a winning baseball history. South Korea established the Korean Baseball Organization in 1981 to organize the country's participation in international ba...
Sport often reflects wider society as it moves through the decades. Baseball is so closely linked to the history of different ethnic groups in America that it encapsulates and holds a mirror up to U.S. society. Irish and German...
Baseball has always been known as a team sport. With nine players on the field at one time, the sport decided that having uniform jerseys not only made the players look more professional, it also would help distinguish each tea...
Latin Americans have been playing the United States-originated game of baseball for more than a century. This has not only contributed to the progression of sports in Latin countries but it has also benefited the United States....
While baseball is a sport that is steeped deeply in history, the annals seldom refer to women's role in the sport's past. Recent history has started to change that lack, however, with the Hall of Fame producing, "Dirt on Their ...
A powerhouse in the modern baseball world, the Dominican Republic has long been involved in the sport. With a history of baseball spanning nearly 150 years, the Dominican Republic has produced numerous top-performing Major Leag...
Walt Whitman called baseball "the American game," and Babe Ruth said it was "the best game in the world." Although football eventually edged past it as the country's most popular sport---41 percent of respondents chose football...
East Carolina University has fielded a baseball team since 1910, making baseball the first sports team at what was then known as East Carolina Teachers Training School. Baseball was an intramural sport for many years before bec...
Philippine baseball history dates back to 1954. The Philippines have produced many top level national teams that have gone on to win gold medals. The early years of Philippine baseball was organized by the Philippine Amateur Ba...
Umpires are appointed officials in baseball that enforce the rules during a game. The first umpire to call a baseball game was appointed by the president of the Knickerbocker Club of New York in 1845. The umpire's job was to st...
You probably already know that a baseball catcher's mask is a vital piece of safety equipment. You might not know that there was a time in history when a catcher's safety was compromised because he did not wear a mask. Controve...
Although baseball is considered America's pastime, the United Kingdom is also able to claim a history with this sport. With stick and ball games being played throughout the centuries, including a European game known as rounders...
Although Michael Jordan is best known for his accomplishments as a professional basketball player, he did also have a short baseball career. While Michael Jordan's baseball career was not as successful as his basketball career,...
Jackie Robinson is remembered for beginning the process that ended segregation in Major League Baseball. When Robinson first joined a Major League team, some players protested and refused to play. However, in 1997, on the 50th ...
The physics of the Magnus effect play a part in aviation and sports that involve throwing, hitting or kicking a ball, including baseball.
The exact origins of baseball are unknown, but popular lore attributes its roots to the English sport called rounders, which was popular in the early 1800s. However, all stick-and-ball games have much more ancient origins, dati...
Toronto is one of two Canadian cities to have had a professional baseball team associated with Major League Baseball, and as of 2011 was the only major league team outside the United States. But the history of baseball in Toron...
Baseball wasn't invented as much as it evolved from earlier games that were played with a ball and stick. Baseball's greatest influence was the British game called rounders and baseball was being played in the early 19th centur...
Baseball first appeared in the Olympic Games about 100 years ago. Baseball started as an exhibition sport in the 1912 Olympics and became officially included in the Games in 1992. While not an official sport for the entirety of...
The University of Texas Longhorn baseball team has established itself as one of the best baseball programs in the National Collegiate Athletic Association. As of 2011, the Longhorns have won six National Championships, 76 Confe...
Evolving from amateur to professional status, Japanese baseball has seen over one hundred years of history making events and players from this great nation although Americans have only seen the tip of the proverbial iceberg in ...
Baseball has existed in various forms for at least three centuries. However, the game was brought to the U.S. from England and likely stemmed from the English game, rounders. As the sport steadily gained popularity in the U.S.,...
Although legend has it that a student in Cooperstown, New York, first invented baseball in 1839, in all likelihood it evolved from the game of cricket. The sport was less than organized in its early days, and the ball went thro...
In a strange set of circumstances, former Major League baseball star Bobby Bonilla will remain on the New York Mets payroll until he's 73 years old. This is because in 2000, the Mets agreed with Bonilla to defer much of his mas...
Baseball or "townball" was a popular game in 19th century England and soon made its way to the U.S. Alexander Cartwright, born in New York, is known as the father of modern baseball. He was quite passionate about the informal g...
Generally considered an American sport, baseball owes much of its development and continuation to the greater international sports community. According to KidsHealth.org, baseball has been the official national pastime of the U...
Iowa's place in baseball history was not cemented by a world championship team or legendary players. It was the 1989 movie "Field Of Dreams" that gave fans a baseball feeling when they think of the state of Iowa. In that movie,...
The game was originally conceived as a gimmick but quickly became a fixture in the national pastime. Soon, the game became known as the mid-summer classic, an event rivaling only the World Series in the realm of baseball. Rules...
It may seem surprising since baseball is thought of as a prime sport played in North America, Latin America and Asia, but organized baseball in Germany goes back to 1936. Baseball is not a major sport in Germany and does not co...
The state of Michigan plays a key role in baseball history. The Detroit Tigers have been playing in the American League since the league's inception in 1901. The Tigers have been noted as one of the top slugging teams in the Am...
The history of shortstops is the history of some of baseball's most enduring heroes. The nature of the position has changed considerably through the years, with the main constant the need for tremendous versatility and blazing ...
Baseball history affected U.S. history. Every Major League Baseball player was white until Jackie Robinson's 1947 debut. The South was segregated, and African-Americans were widely considered inferior. Pitcher Bob Feller said, ...
The Cincinnati Reds baseball team has a historical past that includes five World Series championships and nine National League pennants. The team was founded in 1882, and played in the American Association league from 1882 to 1...
Baseball is termed the "American pastime." It is a team sport that has since spread to other leading world nations, including China. Baseball was not widely accepted in China and its territories at first, as the sport was deeme...
On the surface, according to "Los Angeles Times" contributor Tom Miller, Cuban baseball appears just like classic American baseball: "three strikes yer out, a neatly executed double play, going, going, gone!" But, as Miller not...
If you consider baseball the all-American sport, it's time to think again. "The New York Times" reports the game began in England and 19th century immigrants brought it to the United States. From informal beginnings, baseball h...
The national sport of Canada is ice hockey. The country is passionate about the National Hockey League, the Canadian national team and even junior hockey. However, Canada has a significant history in baseball. The country is re...
The first recorded baseball game was played in 1846. As the amateur game gained popularity, the teams met to form an organized league called the National Association of Base Ball Players. After the end of the Civil War, the lea...
Major League Baseball is a professional baseball organization with teams in the United States and Canada. It was founded in 1876 with 10 teams and a very simple organizational structure. As of 2011, it features 30 teams, with n...
Baseball fever swept America in the 1950s, according to Rewind the Fifties. Top players, such as Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays, put the sport in the spotlight, and television began to air games on a regular basis. Fans across t...
Hall-of-Famer Ted Williams illustrated the importance of the backstop in baseball when he said, “Making good contact with a round ball and round bat even if you know what's coming is hard to do. It's the hardest thing to ...
Baseball season almost always culminates with a championship being won in a series or a tournament. Some of the championships -- like the World Series -- are greatly celebrated. Winning a championship represents a high level of...
The genesis of modern baseball is thought to be a form of a ball-and-bat game played in Europe during the 19th century and brought to North America by immigrants. The game has undergone numerous changes and now is considered th...
Since the earliest days of baseball in the late 19th century, the pitcher's place on the field has been tinkered with many times, yet interestingly, the distance to home plate has been 60 feet 6 inches for almost that entire time.
Baseball can be traced back to the time of Civil War in the U.S. Hitting upon the 20th century, baseball had evolved into a popular sporting event; however it was not all roses for the early 1900s baseball players and fans. No ...
Major League Baseball (MLB) players have sported more than 4,000 different styles of uniforms in the past century, according to the Baseball Almanac website. New fabrics, styles and even the advent of television have all played...
The College World Series crowns the NCAA Division I men's baseball national champion each year. Over its long history, the College World Series has evolved from a little-known sporting event to one of the of most prominent NCAA...
That's the year a young Abner Doubleday, an eventual Civil War hero, invented the game in a cow pasture in the quaint town of Cooperstown, New York. It's an amazing story. Unfortunately, it isn't true. Baseball's legitimate his...
Mitts are a standard part of a baseball catcher's gear these days, but that wasn't always the case. When early mitts arrived, they protected a catcher's hands but still left him prone to injuries. It wasn't until the advent of...
Norway, a small town in Iowa with a population of less than 600, became a baseball wonder by winning 20 state championships over a 34-year history. The Norway Tigers, who were often referred to as the "Giant Killers," brought t...
A right-handed pitcher standing 6 feet and weighing 160 lbs., Fuentes was shot and killed at the age of 23 in 1970, during the off-season. Fuentes' minor and major league stats survive, along with those of his teammates, as a r...
There are few countries around the world that have embraced baseball with the same enthusiasm as the American public, but the sport's earliest roots may lie in traditional stick and ball games played in England hundreds of year...
Baseball was fully ingrained in the American cultural experience by the start of the 1930s. The sport had enjoyed a decade on the rebound following the 1919 Black Sox scandal. Much of this was due to the home run slugging of Ba...
George Herman Ruth Jr., better known by his nickname "Babe," was an American baseball legend who played for three major league teams from 1914 to 1935. Today, Ruth still inspires baseball players and enthusiasts throughout the ...
The sport's highs and lows have run in counterpoint with notable times in America's history. Baseball originated in the United States and many Americans have grown up with it.
Baseball became popular in the United States in the early 19th century. A spinoff of the English game rounders, baseball's first recorded game occurred in 1846 and the sport made its way into the college world in 1859.
The African -American culture is rich in history and tradition, and the sport of baseball is just one area where that history can be felt. Although not evident in modern times, as recently as the early to middle part of the 20t...
Football is not America's "national pastime" -- baseball got to that marketing title first. But, as "The New York Times" notes, it could make a strong claim to the title. When the New Orleans Saints won the Super Bowl title gam...
Hawaiian baseball got its start in 1849 when Alexander Joy Cartwright, the original founder of organized baseball, landed in Hawaii after discovering he was seasick. He had planned to sail to China to join his brother in the t...
While all baseball players wear gloves, the catcher wears a glove that you would more correctly call a mitt because it does not have individual finger slots, but rather one for the thumb and one for the rest of the hand--like a...
However, baseball players have not always used gloves, nor did the early gloves resemble the gloves of today. Throughout history, baseball gloves have advanced to protect players of America's national pastime.
The curveball is not just a devastating pitch used to put the finishing touch on a batter when a pitcher wants to register a strikeout. It was such an effective pitch that it spawned the development of the slider, which is a co...
While America was enjoying the organization of baseball in the early 19th century, Western Australia was just catching up to the European game of rugby. It wasn't until a century later that Western Australia organized its first...
Baseball has long been considered "America's Pastime" and while it is enjoyed internationally, it will always be closely tied to the U.S. Baseball has a rich history full of interesting characters, exceptional players and memor...
Stealing first involved running to first base after already reaching second base. New rules have prevented this from occurring since 1920, but the stealing of first remains an important and interesting part of baseball history ...
Baseball -- along with apple pie -- often brings to mind the good old U.S. of A., but history reveals that the sport actually might have come from United Kingdom. Despite its possible early roots in the United Kingdom, baseball...
In the little more than 100 years since its introduction to Korea, baseball has risen from pastime to passion. The skill of the athletes paired with the dedication of fans have forced this American national sport to quickly tak...
The game of baseball is all about the ball: baseballs flying out of the park, baseballs hurled from the hand of an ace pitcher, baseballs zipping across the field in a double play. Baseballs are engineered to behave in a certai...
Just as in the United States, each October, the champions of each league play a series of games, called the Japanese Series, to determine the year's best team . The most famous player in Japanese baseball history is Sadaharu Oh...
Known as "the national pastime," the history of baseball begins with pre-Civil War bat-and-club games like rounders and cat. The history of proto-baseball is largely shrouded in mystery, largely due to a lack of statistics -- a...
Union general Abner Doubleday is sometimes erroneously credited with the invention of baseball. Instead, it evolved naturally from several European games, such as lapta, cricket and rounders, all of which used the idea of batt...
The origins of America's Pastime are now believed to be more gradual. According to an article in the New York Times, the earliest mention of a game called "base ball" was in the April 25, 1823, edition of The National Advocate....
However, its first mention occurred as far back as 1755, when lawyer William Bray of Guildford, Surrey, wrote in his diary about playing the game. Despite its English roots, the history of baseball in America is far richer. It ...
Baseball is believed to be based on the English game, Rounders. The sport has its American origins in the early 19th century, though it had no official rules then. The website MLB Players lists June 19, 1846, as the date of the...
The history of America's pastime has been a long and rich one. The sport of baseball has grown from its pastoral, casual origins into a national fixation whose players command million-dollar salaries. Almost everything about th...
The World Series is the championship of Major League Baseball. It brings together the winners of the National and American League each October to compete in a best-of-7 series for the Commissioner's Trophy, which was first awar...
In the 1840s, Alexander Joy Cartwright developed rules for baseball, which are the basis for today's game. By the 1860s, baseball was so popular it was called "the national pastime." Amateur black baseball teams formed in the 1...
Baseball is America's national pastime. Many youngsters grow up playing and watching the game. In many cases, appreciation of the game passes from one generation to the next. Men may have seen Joe DiMaggio and Ted Williams play...
Yogi Berra famously said that baseball is 90 percent mental and the other half is physical. Changes to the game over the years tweak the 90 percent mental "half," in terms of player motivation and fan excitement. The changes ha...
The history of baseball is a memorable one. In many dramatic games, teams have managed to have great comebacks to win the games. While the victories have been memorable and thrilling from the winner's perspective, they have bee...
The Atlanta Braves baseball team remains the country's oldest continuously operating professional sports franchise, according to MLB.com. The Braves is the only franchise among 30 Major League teams that has participated in eve...
The 1990s was an extremely newsworthy decade in baseball's history. Baseball added four teams in the decade, the first time since 1977 that baseball decided to expand. Baseball also added a new level to its postseason in the mi...
Early settlers of the U.S. played various ball games resembling baseball but professional baseball has its origins with the New York Knickerbockers, a team that began playing in 1846. Organized baseball had written rules, which...
The sight of a hitter standing in the batter's box with bat in hand and batting helmet securely in place is common on baseball fields everywhere. It is hard to imagine that the game was once played without batting helmets. The ...
As a former major league player John Lowenstein stated, "The secret to keeping winning streaks going is to maximize the victories while at the same time minimizing the defeats" There may be no other sport out there that has any...
As it turns out, legend is all it is -- baseball was being played well before this time, and in fact, some historians even claim that baseball had its origins in ancient Egypt. The game as people know it today can more likely b...
The Rawlings Sporting Goods Co., the official baseball supplier of Major League Baseball, has a long, storied history with the sport of baseball. While the company produces equipment for football, basketball and other sports, R...
Stirrup socks are rooted in baseball's history. According to the Baseball Hall of Fame, the Cincinnati Red Stockings caused a minor stir when they adopted knickers and began wearing colored socks to cover their otherwise bare l...
The catcher takes the field in baseball wearing a mask, chest protector and shin guards. This equipment are the tools of the catcher's trade and they were labeled as the "tools of ignorance." The thought behind that unflatterin...
Great stories have emerged from baseball, including those of exciting games, legendary players and scandalous behavior. These stories have cemented baseball's place in history as America's game.
Although games and activity involving a stick and ball have flourished throughout the ages, the roots of baseball lie firmly in the English games of rounders and cricket. Baseball first emerged on American soil in the late 1700...
Baseball, long known as America's pastime, is a sport with a long and colorful history. While it would take a multi-volume reference work (or a 25-hour documentary such as Ken Burns' 1994 film "Baseball") to do it justice, some...
