baseball of the 1950s
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Baseball of the 1950s. By: Jordan Cosgrove, Shelbie Curtis, and Jon Killoy. Baseball: Where It Came From. Based on and English game called Rounders “ Townball ”, “Base”, Baseball Small towns formed teams Clubs formed in cities Cartwright made list of rules First game in 1846 - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Baseball of the 1950s
By: Jordan
Cosgrove, Shelbie Curtis, and Jon Killoy
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Baseball: Where It Came From
• Based on and English game called Rounders
• “Townball”, “Base”, Baseball
• Small towns formed teams• Clubs formed in cities• Cartwright made list of
rules• First game in 1846• Nation Association of Base
Ball Players formed in 1858Alexander Cartwright
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Lets Play Ball!• Decade full or enormous
social and cultural changes; baseball reflected and illustrated these changes
• Major league in Northeast and Midwest
• The games decade involved the most fundamental, startling and dynamic change of any in history
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Race in Baseball
• Majority of racially inspiring events took place in the 1950s
• 1949 only 3 teams had players of color
• 1950 only nine players of color
• 1960 total of 52 players of color
Jackie Robinson
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Where Things Were
Located!
• Entering 1950s no major league franchise had moved
• Before decade was over over a third of franchise had moved over the country
• MLB went nationwide for the first time
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Technology in Baseball
• Air Jet transportation
• Installation of lights in fields
• Team travel went from trains to jets
• Traveling to parks by cars
• Games were now seen at home on televisions
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League Structure
• 58 minor leagues
• Many semi-pro teams
• Watching games on television
• Fans were in love with home runs
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The Game Stats
• Stolen base rates remained low
• Style of league changes• Home runs increased• Triples declined• Walks declined• Strikeouts increased
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Decades NL MVPs
• Jim Konstanty – 1950• Roy Campanella – 1951• Hank Sauer – 1952• Roy Campanella - 1953• Willie Mays - 1954• Roy Campanella - 1955• Don Newcombe - 1956• Hank Aaron - 1957• Ernie Banks - 1958• Ernie Banks - 1959
Roy Campanella
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Decades AL MVPs
• Phil Rizzuto - 1950• Yogi Berra - 1951• Bobby Shantz - 1952• Al Rosen - 1953• Yogi Berra - 1954• Yogi Berra - 1955• Mickey Mantle - 1956• Mickey Mantle - 1957• Jackie Jensen - 1958• Nellie Fox - 1959
Yogi Berra
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Interesting Things of the
Decade
1950-Connie Mack retires-First “Opening Night”-TV provides $2.3million
1951-Bob Feller-Bob Nieman-Cleveland: three 20 game
wins1952
-Pirates loose 112 games-Fred Hutchinson is team
manager-Joe Black
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Interesting Things of the
Decade
1953-Vic Janowicz
1954-no longer allowed to
leave gloves on field-sacrifice fly rule-18 player swap
1955-first African American
player for Yankees1956
-Reds vs MilwaukeeElston Howard
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Interesting Things of the
Decade
1957-Giants and Dodgers final
game1958
-Giants and Dodgers move-Roy Campanella paralyzedGold Glove selection-Reds make 100 errors
1959-Two all star games-Ex player becomes AL
presidentRoy Campanella