Baseball:

Yesterday & Today

Personal Relevance…

What I Plan To Do…

• I plan to take you back a century or two to show how this legendary sport was started. After that I will analyze how people treated the sport back then compared to how they do today and what possible factors caused that.

Where Did It All Start?

• Rounders

– The Tudor era

Town Ball

The Man Behind It.

Alexander CartwrightApril 17, 1820 – July 12, 1892

“The Father of Baseball”“20 Original Rules of Basebal”

Or was he the man behind it?

The Abner Doubleday Myth

The Knickerbockers v.s.

The New York 9

• The first official game ever played.

– June 19, 1846

The First Inductees

How Active are Kid’s Sports?

Activeness Promotes Success