Father Of Baseball

The father of organized baseball was Alexander Cartwright. Although most journals and the media consultants will tell you it was Abner Doubleday, my advice to you is not to believe a single word of it. You see, special interests and wars of culture (known as info-wars) get in the way of the real facts. Organized baseball took its origins from Rounders, a game played in England. When it came along with the immigrants to the shores of the United States it took roots in the streets of New York. There various gangs of boys and men used to play it with great acumen.

That is how baseball began to slowly move towards the form we see it in today. On the streets was made what you see in the field. Just as a legendary player goes from being a little boy in the streets to a super sports star in the stadium so too has the game gone the route of evolution. The baseball you see at present on ESPN or Star Sports is actually the fittest that has survived by ruthless suppression and extinction of lesser adaptive variants. Among some of the gentlemen present in New York then was Alexander Cartwright who decided he needed some outdoors exercise. He made certain rules which stuck with the onlookers who adopted them. These included the rule of fair and foul areas; the law of three outs and the by-law of 9 players on each team. He called it “base ball” which means a ball which is knocked around with a bat around certain bases.

The father of black baseball meanwhile was Andrew “Rube” Foster. Foster began his managerial career in 1907. He formed the Negro League in 1922, which went on to play its own World Series. Most white teams shunned colored people than. The main reason behind this was prejudice. Since the blacks didn’t have any rights in society and were treated as pariahs they were segregated in ghettoes where they lived their lives in poverty and squalor. But some arose from their ranks and went on to do something for their own people. Andrew “Rube” Foster was just this sort of a gentleman. He had a passion and a vision. He took his dream and made it a reality within a few years. Today Black Baseball has been assimilated into White Baseball. The result is a graying of boundaries so that it doesn’t matter if you are black or white so long as you know how to play the game.

A player who made Black Baseball enter the White Mainstream with ease was Jackie Robinson. This was one man who proved once and for all that for every individual on the planet there shines a star. He single-handedly persuaded the top brass to allow Negroes into the major teams. Thus the race barrier was broken and a new era in race-relations began. The easing of tensions between blacks and whites especially after the 60s Civil Rights Movement is a miracle in itself and Jackie Robinson was the man who played his part in sports freedom.

So next time you think of who father baseball was, know this that he was Alexander Cartwright and Andrew “Rube” Foster respectively for whites and blacks.

As for all the rest of the history that did baseball father, well it’s right there on the Net for all to view at minimal cost.