Baseball Presentation
Transcript: Baseball introduction Baseball is a sport played all around the world, in many different countries. It is one of the most common sports in the world. Positions Baseball team must have: infielder(short stop, first basemen, second basemen, third basemen) outfielder(left fielder, right fielder, out fielder) a pitcher a catcher nine people on the field. menber who changed can't go on the field again for the game History Commonly said baseball started before the American Civil War (1861 - 1865) from a game called rounders, which is a simple game played on sandlots. ~1839 There were several evolution and different titles 1839, people of United States called the sport “Baseball” and revised the original rules of the game. A lot of people started to play baseball, 1860s civil war, number of baseball teams dropped dramatically After civil war, more people started playing in baseball than before. Women playing baseball Baseball could be played equally by both men and women, but it became a male centered sport along with the American culture. Until the 1930s, women who could play was limited to the upper class, who had graduated collage, or the working class. It was a age where people, not only men, women, too thought that women has to be feminine. Even though it was a hard condition for the women, they were actively playing baseball during 1866 to 1935. Female teams were winning against male teams. People thought that baseball would become a sport equally played by women and men in the future. 1930s~1940s. World War II, formation of the American Softball Association. Caused a big change Pioneer of Baseball in Asia In Eastern Asia, baseball is one of the most popular sports. Especially in Taiwan, Japan and Korea. professional baseball leagues, many star players. But before 1990s, there were not much major leagers from these countries. The World War II caused some of the women leave baseball. There were more needs of people at jobs. The formation of the American Softball Association led the thought-there are softball for women to play, and there are no needs for women to play baseball. It became harder and harder or women to play baseball and it is still to the present.