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[First Game - 1913 World Series (baseball)] (LOC)


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[First Game - 1913 World Series (baseball)]

[1913 Oct. 7]

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Many people today still do not know where baseball originates from, so lets take a brief look at baseball’s history.

Although it is difficult to pinpoint an exact birthday birth place for baseball, we can trace it back to the most logical of places…England.

Games involving a bat, a ball and bases have been around for many hundreds of years, in many parts of the world. It is this reason that brings uncertainty to baseball’s one true origin.

The modern game of baseball is in fact a direct sibling of the English game of rounders. Rounders has been played in England for hundreds of years, and it is thought that the English brought the game over to the United States, where it later evolved into the sport we now know as baseball.

There are many similarities between the two sports, the most obvious being that both sports have the same basic structure. Both involve having manned bases, with the object of the game to throw the ball, hit the ball and then run in order to score points.

Since it was brought over to the United States, the game known as rounders in England was known as Town Ball in the United States. It wasn’t until Alexander Cartwright came along and recreated the sport of Town Ball, giving birth to the game of Base Ball.

Base Ball is the first “rough” version of the sport of baseball that we now play. The rules that Alexander Cartwright drew up back in 1845 played an extremely important part in the creation of the modern sport of baseball and thus he is known as the inventor of modern baseball.

Little has changed in baseball’s history since then, except for a few rules and regulations as time progressed. What the future holds for baseball…we don’t know. But what we do know is that baseball has evolved to be one of the most beloved sports in American history…baseball’s history can’t get better than that!… The future looks bright.

by The Library of Congress

[First Game - 1913 World Series (baseball)] (LOC)


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Bain News Service,, publisher.

[First Game - 1913 World Series (baseball)]

[1913 Oct. 7]

1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.

Notes:
Original data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards: Polo Grounds, 10/7/13.
Corrected title and date based on research by the Pictorial History Committee, Society for American Baseball Research, 2006.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

Format: Glass negatives.

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain

Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.14447

Call Number: LC-B2- 2852-2

Many people today still do not know where baseball originates from, so lets take a brief look at baseball’s history.

Although it is difficult to pinpoint an exact birthday birth place for baseball, we can trace it back to the most logical of places…England.

Games involving a bat, a ball and bases have been around for many hundreds of years, in many parts of the world. It is this reason that brings uncertainty to baseball’s one true origin.

The modern game of baseball is in fact a direct sibling of the English game of rounders. Rounders has been played in England for hundreds of years, and it is thought that the English brought the game over to the United States, where it later evolved into the sport we now know as baseball.

There are many similarities between the two sports, the most obvious being that both sports have the same basic structure. Both involve having manned bases, with the object of the game to throw the ball, hit the ball and then run in order to score points.

Since it was brought over to the United States, the game known as rounders in England was known as Town Ball in the United States. It wasn’t until Alexander Cartwright came along and recreated the sport of Town Ball, giving birth to the game of Base Ball.

Base Ball is the first “rough” version of the sport of baseball that we now play. The rules that Alexander Cartwright drew up back in 1845 played an extremely important part in the creation of the modern sport of baseball and thus he is known as the inventor of modern baseball.

Little has changed in baseball’s history since then, except for a few rules and regulations as time progressed. What the future holds for baseball…we don’t know. But what we do know is that baseball has evolved to be one of the most beloved sports in American history…baseball’s history can’t get better than that!… The future looks bright.

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Horse racing is a very popular equestrian sport enjoyed universally by millions of people every season. It is an interesting yet complicated game, full of minute intricacies. In order to be able to appreciate the ‘King of Sports’, it is important that a horse racing fan first gain a basic understanding of the extraordinary horse race history and the amazing culture behind this great sport.

When you are well informed about your favorite sport, playing an online 3D simulation horse racing video game will be all the more fun. In these games, you get numerous opportunities to prove your horsemanship by demonstrating your riding, breeding, betting and training skills. Just imagine what it would feel like if you get a chance to breed great sires and dams of the world and then name their progeny. Online horse racing games offer you all this and much more!

Horse racing is not just about betting on horses or which horse race has the richest purse in the world. The horse race history is very rich and has its roots entrenched in the 12th century. Horse racing as we know it today is believed to have originated with the return of English knights from the Crusades, on their majestic Arab stallions.

The Arab horse pedigree were imported and bred with the English mare to produce offspring that were a powerful combination of strength, speed, endurance and agility. Gambling on racing horses became the favorite leisure activity of the aristocracy. With time, the popularity of the game spread to US as well as other parts of Europe.

During the 1700s, horse racing gained the status of a professional sport which led to the founding of Jockey Club. It is an authoritative body that was formed in 1750 and governs English racing even today. It laid down the rules of race horse breeding as well as standards that defined the quality of horse racing. This resulted in the designation of particular horse races that are recognized as the ultimate tests of excellence till date.

Although reading all about the horse race history will not necessarily make you a top horse racing game player but it will certainly help to form a bond between the virtual and real world. When you are familiar with the past achievements of your beloved champion race horse, it will not only make you the proud virtual owner but also help to bring out the best in you while you play an online fantasy horse racing game.

Orange-Cap,Number14. His name is “Deep Impact”. (Japanese Two Thousand Guineas Stakes=皐月賞)
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[New York Yankees president Frank Farrell presents loving cup to Yankees manager Harry Wolverton as Red Sox and Yankees players look on at Hilltop park, New York, April 11, 1912 (baseball)] (LOC)


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[New York Yankees president Frank Farrell presents loving cup to Yankees manager Harry Wolverton as Red Sox and Yankees players look on at Hilltop park, New York, April 11, 1912 (baseball)]

[1912 Apr. 11]

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Player at far right with chest protector is Gabby Street, New York AL (Pictorial History Committee, Society for American Baseball Research).
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Baseball

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A popular game worldwide especially in America, baseball is similar to the cricket game in England and lapta in Russia. The history of baseball remains unclear because it did not claim to originate from a specific country or contain specific date of reference. However, baseball has evolved over the years in terms of popularity and rules. Today, it is a recognized sport with many supporters from all over the world.

A more accepted theory states that baseball was based on an English game called rounders. Many of the features are similar to baseball including the use of bat and ball by contending teams, and the aim to strike the ball across level playing field. However, there is dissimilarity in the shape of the field. By the end of 18th century, different primitive versions of baseball were played in America. They were known by “townball”, “base” and “stoolball”. However, there were no recorded rules prior to 1845.

In 1845, the history of baseball took a turning point when Alexander Cartwright and the members of his New York Knickerbocker Base Ball Club formed the first rules for the modern game of baseball. Dubbed the Father of Baseball, Cartwright created a list of codes to be adhered by all baseball players. A year later, the first recorded baseball contest took place between Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York City and the New York Baseball Club. Since then, the game has been played more frequently and slowly gained popularity.

By 1957, the first organized baseball league took place and was participated by twenty five teams. At this point of time, baseball seemed to emerge as a promising sport. However, the baseball fever came to a halt during American Civil War but resumed with greater fervor after that. The sport has grown tremendously since then.

For the many fans out there, their hope is that the future of baseball and the birth of many more talented players will be able to match the colorful history of baseball.  It is essentially a game like no other, bridging differences and unique in every way.

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[New York NL Giants team at Polo Grounds (baseball)] (LOC)


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[New York NL Giants team at Polo Grounds (baseball)]

1913 APr. 10.

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Henry Chadwick, called the father of baseball, its first writer and the inventor of the box score, claimed that American baseball was positively descended from the British game of rounders, which became “town ball” in this country, then baseball. He was an eyewitness to the evolution, having seen rounders played as a boy in England, and rounders, town ball and baseball in this country.

A. G. Spalding, founder of the famous sporting goods house, a fine pitcher himself, and publisher of the “Baseball Guide,” claimed that such a theory was nonsense and that baseball was purely an American invention. A committee was appointed to investigate the matter. The findings of the committee – that baseball had been invented in 1839 by Abner Doubleday, a distinguished Civil War General, in Cooperstown, New York – were based wholly upon evidence submitted in a letter written by a man who stated that he had observed the actual invention when he was a schoolboy in Cooperstown.

Many accepted the findings of the committee even though there seemed to be much more evidence to support Chadwick’s claim than that of Spalding. To this day, even though numerous baseball authorities have repeatedly poked holes in the Doubleday theory, there are many who still believe this old story. It should be noted that Abner Doubleday himself never made any claims whatever to having had any influence on baseball. He had died years before the findings were published.

By the early 1840s, the baseball games played in this country had been pretty well standardized into “Town Ball,” played East of New York, and “the New York Game,” played, naturally, in New York. They were alike in many respects but Town Ball was patterned more after the ancient rounders, while the New York Game seems to have been largely taken from cricket. In 1842, the New Yorkers drew up the first diagram of a baseball field and grown men began to take this boys’ game seriously and to see in it possibilities for a great sport.

In 1845, the Knickerbocker Baseball Club of New York was formed, the first such organization in history. It was an amateur group with duly elected officers. No professional organization was to appear for twenty-five more years. The Club immediately began drawing up a set of standard rules and making plans for a more satisfactory playing field. Draftsman and surveyor Alexander Cart-wright was given the task of preparing a diagram for a new type of field.

By the following year, Cartwright had prepared the diamond diagram which, except for minor changes, is the baseball field used to this day wherever baseball is played. The Knickerbockers also established uniform rules which set the pattern for present-day ball.

The First Game. – The Knickerbockers then issued challenges to take on all comers and the first baseball game ever played under organized rules took place on June 19, 1846, at Elysian Fields (near Hoboken), New Jersey. “The New York Nine” was the opposing team and they beat the Knicks 23-1 in four innings.

So depressed were the Knickerbockers that they played no more inter-city games until 1851, but limited their play to practice games. After five years of practice, they evidently believed they were ready for another go at the game and took on the “Washington Baseball Club of New York” on June 3, 1851 on the same Elysian Fields.

Both teams were tied at the end of the ninth, but the Knicks got two runs in the tenth to win the game 22-20.

From this small beginning, the great game of baseball has developed into the huge game it is today.

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by Paolo Camera

Thoroughbred Horse Race in India


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Thoroughbred horse race on turf (grass) surface in India.

No matter which major city from around the world it is that you will visit, you are bound to witness a horse racing event – Australia, Mauritius, New Zealand, USA, UK, Europe, the Middle Eastern countries, and a few Asian countries. This equestrian sport has been around for centuries, but how exactly did it start out? Before delving deeper into that, let us first check on the most popular forms of horse racing. One of the most typical sights that you will see in affluent communities is Thoroughbred racing.  In Australia, Standardbred horses racing is more popular – just like in New Zealand. Quarter horse racing; and purebred Arabian horses racing or endurance racing are other forms of the sport.

Important Breakthroughs in the History of Horse Racing

After learning about some of the basic facts about horse racing, let us now check on its history as a sport. Take a look at the following important specific dates, periods and breakthroughs in horse racing:

-    4500 BCE
As mentioned earlier, horse racing as a sport has existed for centuries now. It actually started during this period when horses first became domesticated animals. Back then, it was Central Asian tribesmen who trained the animals – and this was the signal for horse racing to become a sport of the privileged and leisured.

-    680 BCE
According to the roster of ancient Olympics during this period, two-horse and four-horse racing was added to the gaming events.

-    753 BCE
One of the best ways to trace back the history of a centuries-old sport like horse racing is to consult the ancient books – and it was in the story of Romulus’ founding of Rome during this period that the mythical city-founded organized a series of horse racing events. The goal was to distract Sabine men abducted the women.

-    12th Century
This is the time that the horse racing that we know of today came to be. During the 12th century, a wave of battle-weary English men returned from the Crusades with Arabian horses. The endurance of these animals over the English ones is incomparable – so they were used in horse racing.

-    1702-1714
Under the rule of Queen Anne, the first modern races where spectators bid on their bets started. It was in 1759 that the Jockey Club was formed.

-    1894
Just like the English’ British Jockey Club, the American Jockey Club was established in this year to set up rules for breeding racing horses.

-    1930s-1970s
In the United States, the sport of horse racing has had its ups and downs – but it was during these decades when the popularity of champion horses like Seabiscuit revived the life of the sport.

Today, horse racing has become almost a national tradition – especially in the state of Louisiana. Whether you’re a true-blue horse racing fan, if you’re in it to win money or if you’re simply interested with the different facets of the sport, nothing beats the feeling of knowing that you know exactly how the sport came about so that you would appreciate its origins even more.

by The Library of Congress

When you enter the field, you will recognize instantly the baseball uniform of the players. Baseball uniforms are like light bulb that will illuminate right away and inform you who belongs to your team and who are the ones who belong in the rival team.

Uniforms is also worn to remind the spectators that they are there to watch and enjoy the game while the players will bravely fight in the field as it stands for the symbol emblem to their baseball uniform

Baseball players do acknowledge that they are please and proud to see that other fans wear their jerseys. Accordingly, this is one effective way to which fans expresses their support.

Actually, seeing your favorite player wearing their uniforms is a great feeling already. And for fans who wore a baseball jersey, the feeling of being united with other fans will bring more excitement as each share the pride with the whole team and other supporters.

But amidst for the identity and excitement of baseball game, have you wondered how baseball uniforms started?

Let’s travel down the lane to know the history of uniforms.

Knickerbockers Baseball Club used the first recorded baseball uniform in 1849. The

Knickerbockers Baseball Club was characterized with white flannel shirt, wool pants and straw hat. It is common knowledge that this type of baseball uniform is very outdated and outmoded in comparison to today’s uniforms.

Baseball uniforms are now made with synthetic materials and these materials are really produced with good quality.

Meanwhile, in 1868, another baseball team, this time the Cincinnati Red Stockings had introduced another uniform. This type of baseball uniform is more promising as it had given players the enough movement.

In 1880 up to 1890, colors and designs of uniforms were change and altered and replaced a lot.

In 1882, player’s uniform became multi colored depending on the player’s position. The use of stockings was the only one used to identify a teammate.

It was in 1888 – 1889, that the three major teams, Detroit and Washington from National League and Brooklyn, member team of American Association had decided to launch stripes on their uniforms.

The stripes design during this time became a short lived but since then, the team Brooklyn became known for being trendsetter in uniforms.

Brooklyn had brought back the striped uniform in 1907, 1916 and 1917, respectively. They are not also afraid in trying other materials for the uniform; they tried a satin material for their uniform.

They were also the first team in baseball history to put numbers on front panels of baseball jersey in 1952.

The evolution of baseball uniform did not stop there; a long process was involved before each team had developed the best baseball uniform for their players today.

So before you sell uniforms that you think you don’t need, you have to remember that baseball uniform may have endure careful planning and long process before how it became the baseball uniform you see it today.

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by The Library of Congress

When you enter the field, you will recognize instantly the baseball uniform of the players. Baseball uniforms are like light bulb that will illuminate right away and inform you who belongs to your team and who are the ones who belong in the rival team.

Uniforms is also worn to remind the spectators that they are there to watch and enjoy the game while the players will bravely fight in the field as it stands for the symbol emblem to their baseball uniform

Baseball players do acknowledge that they are please and proud to see that other fans wear their jerseys. Accordingly, this is one effective way to which fans expresses their support.

Actually, seeing your favorite player wearing their uniforms is a great feeling already. And for fans who wore a baseball jersey, the feeling of being united with other fans will bring more excitement as each share the pride with the whole team and other supporters.

But amidst for the identity and excitement of baseball game, have you wondered how baseball uniforms started?

Let’s travel down the lane to know the history of uniforms.

Knickerbockers Baseball Club used the first recorded baseball uniform in 1849. The

Knickerbockers Baseball Club was characterized with white flannel shirt, wool pants and straw hat. It is common knowledge that this type of baseball uniform is very outdated and outmoded in comparison to today’s uniforms.

Baseball uniforms are now made with synthetic materials and these materials are really produced with good quality.

Meanwhile, in 1868, another baseball team, this time the Cincinnati Red Stockings had introduced another uniform. This type of baseball uniform is more promising as it had given players the enough movement.

In 1880 up to 1890, colors and designs of uniforms were change and altered and replaced a lot.

In 1882, player’s uniform became multi colored depending on the player’s position. The use of stockings was the only one used to identify a teammate.

It was in 1888 – 1889, that the three major teams, Detroit and Washington from National League and Brooklyn, member team of American Association had decided to launch stripes on their uniforms.

The stripes design during this time became a short lived but since then, the team Brooklyn became known for being trendsetter in uniforms.

Brooklyn had brought back the striped uniform in 1907, 1916 and 1917, respectively. They are not also afraid in trying other materials for the uniform; they tried a satin material for their uniform.

They were also the first team in baseball history to put numbers on front panels of baseball jersey in 1952.

The evolution of baseball uniform did not stop there; a long process was involved before each team had developed the best baseball uniform for their players today.

So before you sell uniforms that you think you don’t need, you have to remember that baseball uniform may have endure careful planning and long process before how it became the baseball uniform you see it today.

Find More Baseball Articles

by The Library of Congress

When you enter the field, you will recognize instantly the baseball uniform of the players. Baseball uniforms are like light bulb that will illuminate right away and inform you who belongs to your team and who are the ones who belong in the rival team.

Uniforms is also worn to remind the spectators that they are there to watch and enjoy the game while the players will bravely fight in the field as it stands for the symbol emblem to their baseball uniform

Baseball players do acknowledge that they are please and proud to see that other fans wear their jerseys. Accordingly, this is one effective way to which fans expresses their support.

Actually, seeing your favorite player wearing their uniforms is a great feeling already. And for fans who wore a baseball jersey, the feeling of being united with other fans will bring more excitement as each share the pride with the whole team and other supporters.

But amidst for the identity and excitement of baseball game, have you wondered how baseball uniforms started?

Let’s travel down the lane to know the history of uniforms.

Knickerbockers Baseball Club used the first recorded baseball uniform in 1849. The

Knickerbockers Baseball Club was characterized with white flannel shirt, wool pants and straw hat. It is common knowledge that this type of baseball uniform is very outdated and outmoded in comparison to today’s uniforms.

Baseball uniforms are now made with synthetic materials and these materials are really produced with good quality.

Meanwhile, in 1868, another baseball team, this time the Cincinnati Red Stockings had introduced another uniform. This type of baseball uniform is more promising as it had given players the enough movement.

In 1880 up to 1890, colors and designs of uniforms were change and altered and replaced a lot.

In 1882, player’s uniform became multi colored depending on the player’s position. The use of stockings was the only one used to identify a teammate.

It was in 1888 – 1889, that the three major teams, Detroit and Washington from National League and Brooklyn, member team of American Association had decided to launch stripes on their uniforms.

The stripes design during this time became a short lived but since then, the team Brooklyn became known for being trendsetter in uniforms.

Brooklyn had brought back the striped uniform in 1907, 1916 and 1917, respectively. They are not also afraid in trying other materials for the uniform; they tried a satin material for their uniform.

They were also the first team in baseball history to put numbers on front panels of baseball jersey in 1952.

The evolution of baseball uniform did not stop there; a long process was involved before each team had developed the best baseball uniform for their players today.

So before you sell uniforms that you think you don’t need, you have to remember that baseball uniform may have endure careful planning and long process before how it became the baseball uniform you see it today.