BASEBALLBy Madelyn

and Mia

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• History of baseball Page 1• Babe Ruth Page 2• The baseball players Page 3• The Mascots Page 4

HISTORY OF BASEBALL• Baseball has been around for hundreds of years.• It started as an English game called “rounder's”.• Americans played a similar game called “town ball”.• In 1845, Alexander Cartwright and Daniel “Doc”

Adams , leaders of Knickerbocker Baseball club developed the first set of rules for the game.

• In the 1900s the rules had evolved to be close to the rules of today to consider it the “birth” of baseball.

BABE RUTH • Without question George Herman

“Babe” Ruth is the most famous and important baseball player in history.

• He died from throat cancer at the age of 53.

• In 22 seasons he scored 714 home runs.

• His best season was in 1927 when he hit 60 home runs. This was a record for 34 years.

WHO’S THE BEST BASEBALL PLAYER• Babe Ruth because he hit 60 home runs.• Babe Ruth is a good baseball player

because he led the Boston Red Sox’s to there fifth world series title, winning game land 4 against the Chicago Cubs.

DID YOU KNOW EVERY BASEBALL TEAM HAS A MASCOT?

• The top 10 mascots are:• Mr. Met• Phillies Phantie• Bernie Brewer• Billy the Marlin• Wally the Green Monster• Mariner Moose• The Saint Diego Chicken Stomper/Lou seal/the Oriole Bird• The Mascots represent the team and entertain the audience.

GLOSSARY

Evolved- to develop Mascot- a person, an animal, or a thing Record- the best that has yet been done Seasons- a period of time World Series – annual championship

series between North American-based Major League Baseball (MLB), played since 1903 between the American League (AL).

INDEX• Table of contents page 1• History of baseball page 2• Babe Ruth page 3• Who’s the best baseball player page 4• Did you know every team has a Mascot page

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