Baseball is a very popular sport which involves two teams made up of, more or less, nine players. Baseball is a bat and ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. Baseball requires a lot of practice and teamwork. There is a history behind this sport and it is played around the world. This is a famous sport wasn’t as easy as it was back then because of segregation. Jackie Robinson was a big leader in baseball and he changed our lives today. The rules are baseballs are simple. But you have to have speed, catching skills, arm power, aim and good vision. Here is the history of baseball and experience how it changed our lives today.
It is hard to pin point the beginning of black baseball. African Americans played on the same teams with whites and on all black teams against whites during the early days of baseball. However there is enough information to show that blacks formed teams that played for local championships. Baseball games in the late 1860s were a premier social event in black communities in the east and mid east. A game was recorded in October 1867 bisques of Brooklyn vs. the excelsior of Philadelphia, in a championship game to determine "the champion of colored clubs." The first professional baseball league was formed in 1871. It was a player-run organization called the nation association of professional baseball players. An all black team from Philadelphia called the pythons applied for admission in this organization. They became the first all black to take the mound against and all white team and beat then, 27-17. The new association held up a rule of not having all black club and they rejected the python’s application. So black club continued to form and compete against each other and with clubs outside the association.
Some people find the sport quite boring as it takes a bit long to play, and it is not as exciting a sport for some people as, let us say, basketball. A baseball team will only get the opportunity to score when their team is the one batting. "By the 1940, originally baseball had been segregated for many years. The black press and some of their white colleagues have long campaigned for the integration of baseball. Although many major league players tired to end serrations of baseball. Although many major league players tired to end serrations until Brooklyn dodger’s general manger branch Rickey set his great experiment into motion "in 1945 baseball would change forever when branch Rickey and Jackie Robinson of the negro league’s Kansas city monarchs agreed to a contract that would bring Jackie Robinson to the major league in 1947.when the first started he faced harassment from both players and fans. He was verbally abused by his own teammates and by members of opposing teams. Some players on his team insinuate they would sit out that play alongside Robinson.
On April 22, 1947, during a game between the dodgers and Philadelphia Phillies, Phillies players called Jackie a "nigger" from the dugout, and yelled that he should go back to the cotton field where he belongs. Rickey would later recall that the Phillies’s manager solidified and united thirty men. "Baseball commissioner happy chandler admonished the Phillies asked Chapman to pose in a photograph with Robinson as a conciliatory gesture.
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