For our next assigned blog, we have been assigned a section from a text book, which I thought was frowned upon in this class. The section the Remastered Team Frostbite received was 8-4, "The Dawn of Mass Culture." I got the subsection of "Spectator Sports."
Spectator Sports
Americans had been joining one another in playing new sports as a casual hobby, but soon they grew into a profit for businesses. Boxing had exploded when the 1900's came around, and whenever there was an important boxing match that fans couldn't attend, crowds would pile into bars and hotel lobbies to get a glimpse of what was going on. Though it has slowed down as new sports organizations have emerged, but boxing still remains as a prime spectator sport.
After new rules were created, baseball was then made into a professional sport. Soon after, Alexander J. Cartwright, an amateur player, formed a club in the Big Apple and set standards based upon an English game called rounders. Some differences include the strike zone (in rounders, it is from the batter's knees to the top of the head), and the pitching styles (in rounders, you pitch underhand, as opposed to the modern overhand wind-up used in baseball today). Otherwise, baseball is essentially a copy of rounders.
This is a flyer for the first World Series
After Cartwright's club was formed, 50 others sprung up all over the country within the next five years, with 12 in New York alone. In the 1860's, teams started to tour and play other teams on the road. In the first ever World Series, which took place in 1903, the Boston Pilgrims defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates. Due to racial differences, African-Americans played in the Negro League, which was also split into two leagues (National and American League). But America had then came a long way, so people of every race were able to compete in the sport.
Famous writer Mark Twain had said that baseball was the reason people fought through the difficult yet-booming late 1800's. By 1890's, the baseball organization had set many standards, including official rules, schedules and even standard diamond sizes.
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