America's Past Time: The Segregation In Baseball In The 1900s

In the MLB alone, over 70,000,000 people go to a game once a year, bringing in a staggering total of $10.32 billion per year. Baseball is now a worldwide sport, played and loved by many. Baseball has also overcome numerous events, such as people of color being segregated and the World Wars. All of this has given baseball a symbolic history and the game has been able to grow rapidly and earn the name of America’s Past Time. The “Segregation in Baseball in the 1900s, 1900-1909” is about many different things like how the colors were separated, how baseball is a gentleman's game, and Rube Foster. This is important because colored people have really changed the game and how it is played. This information connects to the thesis because colored people

Many of the rules that we use today were created by men who played for the New York Knickerbockers. This information is important because many baseball fanatics would love to hear about this because there’s a possibility that baseball could’ve never been a game if it weren’t for Abner. This information connects to the thesis because it was the start of baseball and how it rapidly started to grow. According to "Who Really Invented Baseball?” by Tim Newcomb, baseball can be looked back to long ago when the players from New York created numerous rules that are still in play today. This information is important because without these rules, who knows where the game would be today. This information connects to the thesis that without those rules the game would not be the same and possibly less popular and wouldn’t be America’s pastime. “Some semblance of what baseball would become can be traced to 1800s New York as groups of men started crafting their own sets of rules. The Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York gets the credit for the first true effort, with a group of men on the rules committee outlining a 20-rule parameter, dubbed the Knickerbocker Rules, which set foul lines, the paces between bases, the limit of three outs, and, (in a safety-first mentality, no doubt) eliminated the dodgeball-style rule that to get a runner out you could hit him with a thrown ball.” (Newcomb