Baseball The American Game

Japanese Baseball League ... Teams Dai Tokyo (1936) → Lion Baseball Club (1937–1940) → Asahi Baseball Club (1941–1944) → Pacific Baseball Club (1946) → Taiyō Robins (1947–1949) → To the Central League (later renamed the Shochiku Robins; present: Yokohama DeNA BayStars, relocated) Korakuen Eagles (1937s) → Eagles Baseball Club (1938–1939) → Kurowashi Baseball Club (1940–1941) → Yamato Baseball Club (1942–1943) → Broken up Nagoya Baseball Club (1936–1943) → Sangyo Baseball Club (1944) → Chubu Nippon (1946) → Chubu Nippon Dragons (1947) → Chunichi Dragons (1948–1949) → To the Central League Nagoya Kinko (1936–1940) → Merged into the Tsubasa Baseball Club Osaka Tigers (1936–September 24, 1940, Nicknamed "Tigers") → Hanshin Baseball Club (September 25, 1940–1944) → Osaka Tigers (1946–1949, Nicknamed "Hanshin") → To the Central League (Present: Hanshin Tigers) Tokyo Kyojin (1936–1944; 1946) → Yomiuri Giants (1947–1949)...

Negro League Baseball ... History of the Negro leagues Amateur era Because blacks were not being accepted into the major and minor baseball leagues, they formed their own teams and had made professional teams by the 1880s... The first known baseball game between two named black teams was held on September 28, 1860, at Elysian Fields in Hoboken, New Jersey... Immediately after the end of the American Civil War in 1865 and during the Reconstruction period that followed, a black baseball scene formed in the East and Mid-Atlantic states...

History Of Sport ... Sports that are at least two and a half thousand years old include hurling (similar to field hockey) in Ireland, harpastum (similar to rugby) in Rome, cuju (similar to association football) in China, and polo in Persia. The Mesoamerican ballgame originated over three thousand years ago...

Tee ... A standard golf tee is 2.125" (two and one eighth inches = 5.4 cm) long, but both longer and shorter tees are permitted. Ordinary tees can be made from wood or from durable plastic...

1919 World Series ... The 1919 World Series was the last World Series to take place without a Commissioner of Baseball in place... In 1920, the various franchise owners installed Kenesaw Mountain Landis as the first "Commissioner of Baseball." In 1921, eight players from the White Sox—including superstar Shoeless Joe Jackson—were banned from organized baseball for fixing the series (or having knowledge about the fix)...

Baseball In Japan ... Corporations with interests outside baseball own the teams. Historically, teams have been identified with their owners, not where the team is based...

Fordham Rams Baseball ... Francis Xavier College in the first ever college baseball game under modern nine-man-team rules (Knickerbocker Rules, or "The New York Game") on November 3, 1859... There have been 56 major leaguers who have played for Fordham, including All-Star pitcher Pete Harnisch and Baseball Hall of Famer Frankie Frisch... John's College from 1863 to 1868, played in the major leagues, primarily as a third baseman, and was the first Latin American in professional baseball...

Baseball In Australia ... In 1867, Victorian cricketers William Gaggin and Louis Goldsmith tried to set up a game of baseball at Yarra Park but were disrupted by fans arriving for a local Australian football match... The first competitive series was played between the Surry Baseball Club and members of the New South Wales Cricket Association over June/July 1878... The first interstate baseball games were played in 1890 when Victoria played South Australia at the East Melbourne Cricket Ground...

Baseball New Zealand ... Campbell was named to the 2006 New York Pennsylvania (NYP) League Mid-Season All-Star team. He finished in the top 10 for both batting average and on-base percentage...

Black Sox Scandal ... Gandil enlisted several of his teammates, motivated by a dislike of club owner Charles Comiskey whom they perceived as a tightwad, to implement the fix; Comiskey had developed a reputation for underpaying his players for years (under the MLB reserve clause, players either had to take the salary they were offered, or couldn't play Major League Baseball, as they were property of the original team, and no other team was allowed to sign them). All of them were members of a faction on the team that resented the more straight-laced players on the squad, such as second baseman Eddie Collins, a graduate of Columbia College of Columbia University, catcher Ray Schalk, and pitcher Red Faber...

Fantasy Sport ... At around the same time a league from Glassboro State College also formed a similar baseball league and had its first draft in 1976... George Blanda was the first player taken in the first draft in 1963.1963 draft results Modern founding - "La Rotisserie" The landmark development in fantasy sports came with the development of Rotisserie League Baseball in 1980... The game's innovation was that "owners" in a Rotisserie league would draft teams from the list of active Major League Baseball players and would follow their statistics during the ongoing season to compile their scores...

Baseball World Cup ... History There have been 38 Baseball World Cups to date and the last World Cup was held in 2011 in Panama... Since 1998, professional minor league players have competed, but Major League Baseball has not allowed its players to participate... In the months leading up to the high-profile first World Baseball Classic in 2006, many commentators heralded it as a "Baseball World Cup", perhaps not realizing that a tournament of that description already exists and has for almost seventy years...

Baseball In Canada ... Over the years at least 75 cities and towns have been home to minor league baseball teams. There is currently only one MLB-affiliated minor league team in the country: the Vancouver Canadians of the Class A Northwest League, an affiliate of the Blue Jays...

History Of American Football ... American football resulted from several major divergences from rugby, most notably the rule changes instituted by Walter Camp, considered the "Father of American Football". Among these important changes were the introduction of the line of scrimmage and of down-and-distance rules...

History Of Baseball In The United States ... In "A Village Sketch," author Miss Mitford wrote: "Then comes a sun-burnt gipsy of six, beginning to grow tall and thin and to find the cares of the world gathering about her; with a pitcher in one hand, a mop in the other, an old straw bonnet of ambiguous shape, half hiding her tangled hair; a tattered stuff petticoat once green, hanging below an equally tattered cotton frock, once purple; her longing eyes fixed on a game of baseball at the corner of the green till she reaches the cottage door, flings down the mop and pitcher and darts off to her companions quite regardless of the storm of scolding with which the mother follows her runaway steps." The first team to play baseball under modern rules were the New York Knickerbockers...