Why Baseball Began Essay

I chose this piece because it’s the beginning, the reason why baseball got started. Also because I am learning about a sport that began so early and evolved into a major league sport. Many people find baseball can be boring because it is so long, its nine innings and that can last a while. The way the sport is, it is set up in a way that when your favorite team is winning, you tend to forget about how long the actual game is. This first inning takes place as early as the 1800’s and going into the 1900’s, explaining who started baseball. One interesting fact that I took heed to be the fact that baseball was not called “baseball”, it was actually called “base”, the game of ball.

In 1909, Charles Hercules Ebbets began secretly buying adjacent

parcels of land in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, and three years later in 1912 the first baseball field was built, and the team was called the “Trollydogers” and later became known as the “dodgers”. In 1955, after four decades of frustration, they eventually won a championship. This is an American sport that links families together and bring them closer just because they go to the games together. Baseball is a sport about speed and brace, and time and timeliness, failure and loss, imperishable hope and coming home.
While watching the video, Burn’s show all of the most famous plays of the sport. He describes it as “fun” to watch. The way he describes the sport, he narrates with such adrenaline, the same adrenaline that people get when they are watching their favorite team. “Baseball fosters hopes”, says Burns. Even though people may not be as famous as some of the major league players, does not mean that they cannot get to that point.
Back in the day, during segregation times, there were baseballs players who were black and did not get the same recongnition as the white baseball players. Another black professional baseball player that I am aware of is Babe Ruth. Baseball is a sport where no matter the race, people can come together to watch, and play the same sport. Many people call baseball the “American sport” I knew blacks at the time were ostracized frequently by their own teammates, and that a lion’s share of responsibility for the segregation of baseball belongs to Cap Anson of the Chicago White Stockings (today’s Chicago Cubs) for his refusal to allow his team to play against any team fielding a black players.
In 1839 on Coopers Town, New York they were playing a game called town ball, and that game did not have the same rules as baseball.

If baseball had relatives, town ball would be its first cousin. It was so similar , and by 1800 townball was played everywhere. The only difference was that town ball did not have rules, and people were getting away with more than they would if they was playing baseball. Someone thought that not having rules for a game was not fair, so he sat down and thought of some rules and that’s how baseball came about. His name was Albert Doubleday. Baseball is a competitive sport, and so many people that play this sport wants to be in the spotlight all the time. 1744, the ball flies in the air and the boy runs to the home plate and they have scored a point. Of course, he feels that he is great at that sport, and so does his friends around him. When a team feels as though they are doing well, it brings great joy to them.

It isn’t until the end that Burns begins to present us with the early characters that most baseball fans have come to know of: Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, and Branch Rickey among them. Still, First Inning manages to be very interesting despite the fact that the narrative is loose and the fact that Burns lacks many of the tools a modern film storyteller would need to effectively enhance the story so that it comes across well on

film.