baseball of the 1950s
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Baseball of the 1950s. By: Jordan Cosgrove, Shelbie Curtis, and Jon Killoy. Baseball: Where It Came From. Based on and English game called Rounders “ Townball ”, “Base”, Baseball Small towns formed teams Clubs formed in cities Cartwright made list of rules First game in 1846 - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Baseball of the 1950s
By: Jordan
Cosgrove, Shelbie Curtis, and Jon Killoy
Baseball: Where It Came From
• Based on and English game called Rounders
• “Townball”, “Base”, Baseball
• Small towns formed teams• Clubs formed in cities• Cartwright made list of
rules• First game in 1846• Nation Association of Base
Ball Players formed in 1858Alexander Cartwright
Lets Play Ball!• Decade full or enormous
social and cultural changes; baseball reflected and illustrated these changes
• Major league in Northeast and Midwest
• The games decade involved the most fundamental, startling and dynamic change of any in history
Race in Baseball
• Majority of racially inspiring events took place in the 1950s
• 1949 only 3 teams had players of color
• 1950 only nine players of color
• 1960 total of 52 players of color
Jackie Robinson
Where Things Were
Located!
• Entering 1950s no major league franchise had moved
• Before decade was over over a third of franchise had moved over the country
• MLB went nationwide for the first time
Technology in Baseball
• Air Jet transportation
• Installation of lights in fields
• Team travel went from trains to jets
• Traveling to parks by cars
• Games were now seen at home on televisions
League Structure
• 58 minor leagues
• Many semi-pro teams
• Watching games on television
• Fans were in love with home runs
The Game Stats
• Stolen base rates remained low
• Style of league changes• Home runs increased• Triples declined• Walks declined• Strikeouts increased
Decades NL MVPs
• Jim Konstanty – 1950• Roy Campanella – 1951• Hank Sauer – 1952• Roy Campanella - 1953• Willie Mays - 1954• Roy Campanella - 1955• Don Newcombe - 1956• Hank Aaron - 1957• Ernie Banks - 1958• Ernie Banks - 1959
Roy Campanella
Decades AL MVPs
• Phil Rizzuto - 1950• Yogi Berra - 1951• Bobby Shantz - 1952• Al Rosen - 1953• Yogi Berra - 1954• Yogi Berra - 1955• Mickey Mantle - 1956• Mickey Mantle - 1957• Jackie Jensen - 1958• Nellie Fox - 1959
Yogi Berra
Interesting Things of the
Decade
1950-Connie Mack retires-First “Opening Night”-TV provides $2.3million
1951-Bob Feller-Bob Nieman-Cleveland: three 20 game
wins1952
-Pirates loose 112 games-Fred Hutchinson is team
manager-Joe Black
Interesting Things of the
Decade
1953-Vic Janowicz
1954-no longer allowed to
leave gloves on field-sacrifice fly rule-18 player swap
1955-first African American
player for Yankees1956
-Reds vs MilwaukeeElston Howard
Interesting Things of the
Decade
1957-Giants and Dodgers final
game1958
-Giants and Dodgers move-Roy Campanella paralyzedGold Glove selection-Reds make 100 errors
1959-Two all star games-Ex player becomes AL
presidentRoy Campanella