Baseball Scorecard - the urge to keep score is as old as the game of baseball itself. Here’s the hook. You can recall the whole game inning by inning, batter by batter, just looking at the scorecard. It’s exhilarating. Like some kind of magic, that single piece of paper preserves the game with no significant loss of detail. Baseball Scorecard For traditional baseball fans everywhere, a scorecard is a treasure! Today, we celebrate one of the most fascinating traditions in sports - the baseball scorecard. Scorekeeping has been around for about 150 years. In fact, the first scorecard in Baseball history was auctioned at Swann Galleries in New York in 2011, for about $4,600. Official scorers are hired to keep an official record of each … [Read more...]
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Baseball Positions
Baseball is one of the most famous sports games across the world. Baseball is a bat and ball game that involves two teams which can be either playing batting or fielding part at once. Each team contains 9 players who are assigned different baseball positions and responsibilities, which are stated below. Different Baseball Positions 1. Pitcher A pitcher is the player who is assigned the responsibility to throw the baseball towards catcher from the pitcher’s mound (a small elevation where the pitcher stands). In order to start the game, the pitcher throws the baseball with the aim to retire a batter who is assigned the task to either face the pitched ball or make a walk through four bases, i.e. first, second, third and eventually home … [Read more...]
Baseball Origin
Baseball Origin Here's a Timeline: 1791 - Pittsfield, MA claims to be the place of Baseball Origin. There's also an interesting story and connection between Pittsflield, MA and Cooperstown, NY. Click here to find out. 1839 - Abner Doubleday was credited for inventing baseball in the summer of 1839 in Cooperstown, NY. Was it Abner Doubleday? What's this? Untruth? There is an Abner Doubleday myth? According to Wikipedia Doubleday was parading around down in West Point during that summer. And who wouldn't have been? The babes were ... well, never mind. 1845 - Alexander Joe Cartright developed the rules of baseball - as far as we can tell. Cartright had vision. He instituted a practice of 'tagging runners out,' instead of chucking the … [Read more...]