Comments on: The Beginning http://www.ladodgertalk.com/2010/02/the-beginning/ Don't drink the Kol-Aid - See a Different Game Wed, 08 Feb 2012 03:10:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Rory http://www.ladodgertalk.com/2010/02/the-beginning/comment-page-1/#comment-21276 Rory Sat, 20 Feb 2010 03:59:37 +0000 http://www.ladodgertalk.com/?p=7423#comment-21276 I saw Rounders. Good movie. And Tudor was a good lefty chucker. He pitched for the Dodgers a couple of years, but he wasn't good then. Actually, the rules of baseball Cartwright made up were not invented from nothing. Forerunners of baseball with names like old cats, stoolball, rounders, and goalball were played in Great Britain for hundreds of years before 1846. These games were very similar to baseball and featured pitching, hitting, and rounding a certain number of bases in order to score runs. They, like modern baseball, were structured according to outs and innings. In goalball, or stoolball, stools were used as bases. In old cats, the number of bases was determined by the number of players on each side. In one old cat, there was one base, in two old cats there was two and so on. The word baseball itself has a long history with even a written account mentioning games of "base" being enjoyed by George Washington's Revolutionary soldiers at Valley Forge. Base-ball. Gotta love this game. I saw Rounders. Good movie. And Tudor was a good lefty chucker. He pitched for the Dodgers a couple of years, but he wasn’t good then.

Actually, the rules of baseball Cartwright made up were not invented from nothing. Forerunners of baseball with names like old cats, stoolball, rounders, and goalball were played in Great Britain for hundreds of years before 1846. These games were very similar to baseball and featured pitching, hitting, and rounding a certain number of bases in order to score runs. They, like modern baseball, were structured according to outs and innings. In goalball, or stoolball, stools were used as bases. In old cats, the number of bases was determined by the number of players on each side. In one old cat, there was one base, in two old cats there was two and so on. The word baseball itself has a long history with even a written account mentioning games of “base” being enjoyed by George Washington’s Revolutionary soldiers at Valley Forge.

Base-ball. Gotta love this game.

]]> By: ken http://www.ladodgertalk.com/2010/02/the-beginning/comment-page-1/#comment-21275 ken Sat, 20 Feb 2010 03:27:46 +0000 http://www.ladodgertalk.com/?p=7423#comment-21275 The game of rounders has been played in England since Tudor Times, with the earliest reference being in 1744 in "A Little Pretty Pocketbook" where it is called baseball. http://web.archive.org/web/20071112065508/http://www.nra-rounders.co.uk/dyncat.cfm?catid=17177 The game of rounders has been played in England since Tudor Times, with the earliest reference being in 1744 in “A Little Pretty Pocketbook” where it is called baseball.

http://web.archive.org/web/20071112065508/http://www.nra-rounders.co.uk/dyncat.cfm?catid=17177

]]> By: steevo17 http://www.ladodgertalk.com/2010/02/the-beginning/comment-page-1/#comment-21274 steevo17 Sat, 20 Feb 2010 00:22:15 +0000 http://www.ladodgertalk.com/?p=7423#comment-21274 I love this history stuff. Keep it coming guys. LA Dodger Talk rules! I love this history stuff. Keep it coming guys. LA Dodger Talk rules!

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