Baseball History

Looking at its origin history of baseball has been colorful alright. What started from a simple stick and small ball being hit again and again with it progressed through the years till we have the major league of today. Speculating on baseball history origins one thinks to oneself who the recorders of this history were in the first place. I mean a king has his court historians and a president has journalists who keep him on his toes (as well as the government to whom he is answerable). Maybe baseball depended more on news sports as well as the behavior of coaches and teams.

The baseball history timeline when seen in graph form is interesting indeed. It begins as a small line that gradually curves upwards until the nineteenth century where it skyrockets and enters space. This has been called the science century but maybe it ought to be called the sports century instead.

Early baseball history was a test of male hormones. Men spat tobacco and swung bats like they were kings. There were few rules and even fewer roles to fill. This made for a lot of bravado and male macho behavior on the stadium grounds. Gradually the laws (and lies) of the game began to be formulated until one fine day all was complete and the rest have been nothing but a series of commentaries on the finished game.

At first it was a white man’s game but gradually blacks entered the game until a baseball black history developed as a subtext to the white man’s burden. Blacks have definitely contributed a lot to baseball. It is their sweat, blood and tears that have paved the way to the fame the game enjoys in this age and day.

The longest baseball game in history lasted 33 innings and was played between the Red Sox and the Red Wings. That was the day when the sun was up and the world looked on in bewildered amazement. We’re talking about the longest played baseball game in history here. It is a world record. Future times will look forward to beating it. For those who actually played the longest game in baseball history it must have been a tiring experience. As for the longest major league baseball game in history, well, it carried on through 26 innings.

Each baseball teams history has undergone changes both major and minor. There have been conflicts between players, coaches, coaches and players etc. The only constant is change itself. Change hasn’t changed. It remains the same.

The history of the baseball bat is very informative. The baseball bat history proves that you can get anything out of something. You just need a material (it could be a branch, a tool or even a side plank of a drawer). It will gradually over time evolve to suit the needs of the players and the game.

But that’s not where the story ends for the end too has a beginning. With modern times there has gradually accumulated a history of aluminum baseball bats. Who knows? One day these will be considered crude and barbaric and uncivilized. How times change