Baseball

Baseball Baseball has been providing us with fun and excitement for more than a hundred and fifty years. The first game resembling baseball as we know it today was played in Hoboken ,New Jersey, on June 19, 1846. The New York Nine beat the New York Knickerbokers that day, 23-1. The game was played according to rules drawn up by Alexander J. Cartwright. A surveyer and amateur athlete. It is a myth that Abner Doubleday1 invented baseball. …

…-1997. Bibliography Bibliography Ritter, Lawrence S. Story of baseball . New York: Beech Tree Paperback Book, 1999 _____________________________________ Jacobs,William Jay .They Shaped The Game . New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1994 _____________________________________ Kahn, Roger . Memories of Summer. New York: Hook Slide, Inc., 1997 _____________________________________ Internet: AOL, 2000 _____________________________________ Gutman, Dan .World Series Classics.New York: Penguin Books USA Inc., 1994 _____________________________________ Edited by Eliot Cohen . My Greatest Day in Baseball. New York: Baseball Ink Book., 1991 _____________________________________ Sowell, Mike. The Pitch That Killed. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company.,1989