Baseball

BASEBALL


Baseball is American’s most popular sport. In a baseball game there are two teams of nine players. Players must hit a ball with a bat and then run around four bases. A player who goes around all the bases scores a run for his ream. The team that finishes with more runs wins the game. Many people believe that the idea came from a game played by children in England. Other people believe that a man named Abner Doubleday invented the game in Cooperstown, New York, in 1839.But the first real rules of baseball were written in 1845 by Alexander Cartwright.
In 1901 a new league, called the American League, was formed. This event was called the World Series.