| Show ORIGIN or OF BASEBALL while baseball as we know it is a port of comparatively recent development la game in which a tossed bill was batted with a rude club has been een traced back to the century in n europe the present american sanie game S anie was probably an outgrowth of tbt raf town ballal balir played in new angland nm arland from about 1830 in which the runs were made around posts set in in the ground instead of bases base S the first code of baseball rules was by the knickerbocker club of new york in 1845 the first game came was played the following year and the first grate gate money series of nies took place at hol in 1058 the developement dev elopement of the game was checked by the civil war but was revived in 1865 when a convention as aj held isit which representatives of 30 clubs were present A rockford ill III team first employ ri fd r i rc eular lv salaried sal ried players vl ayers but nie red ners orran nei in 1868 is considered the first professional club it made a tour in 1969 winning winn inc 69 rames with without lut meeting a single defeat in 1870 it on 29 s ailbe rame beinar defeated in the by the Atlant ices of brooklyn gamblers G having gotten cotton control of the gamed game a convention was held beld in ill louisville Loui in 1876 at which strict rules to overcome bribery betting by players end other abuses were adopted and the national legue was form fonn I 1 A d there are now mare 20 pro fes ional leagues of which the national and the american originally the western formed by ban johnson in 1893 are arc the two big leagues the most significant en bent ent in ba baseball se was the appointment of judge kenesaw mountain landis as baseball czar in 1920 |
