Henry Chadwick
“It was not long before I was struck with the idea that baseball was last the game for a national sport for americans”-Henry Chadwick. Also known as the “father of baseball”, Henry Chadwick was a journalist and writer that decided to create something new. Henry Chadwick was born on October 5th,1824, in the United Kingdom. Henry Chadwick(the real creator of baseball) also made the first rule book of baseball, which was another huge accomplishment of the 18th century man. The rule book included every possible scenario that could happen in the game of baseball. He kept his thoughts in the form of journaling. Henry Chadwick created the game of baseball, thought flexibly to innovate ways to overcome the demand of a new sport for the people, and illuminated the world with the game of baseball, a sport loved by all. “Born in England in 1824, Chadwick did reporting of cricket games in the 1850’s and used his knowledge of cricket to inform his understanding of the new game of baseball.”
(Schiff, 2017). Henry Chadwick created the game of baseball. Being introduced to cricket as a young child, Chadwick Contemplated about the game. Keeping his thoughts in a journal, Chadwick Started to create something new, bigger and bolder than cricket. Yet to be founded by Chadwick, Baseball was a sport to be.
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Nemee, David. “100 Years of Major League Baseball.” Lincolnwood, Illinois: Publications Infernational, Ltd, 200. Print.
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Tygiel, Jules. 2001; 2000. Past time: Baseball as history. Oxford England; New York: Oxford University Press.
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