Baseball

Baseball is my favorite game. I grew up playing it from T-Ball when I was 5 years old to winning multiple league championships in High School. But, as many aspiring major leaguers relize, I knew I did not have the talent to advance beyond my High School Years.

However, that did not diminish my love of the sport. Now many would and will say that Baseball is a sport of a bygone era. It was most popular before television came to dominate the media. Baseball is a slow sport, and that is why I like it. In fact, it is the only sport I can enjoy sitting in my room for up to four hours sitting and listening to only a voice telling me what is happening.

Here is a little ( and by little I mean very abbreviated) history of Baseball. Many say it came from an evolution of the still popular British game of Cricket or a later evolution of a Northern British territorial game called "Rownders." In fact I once spent a game sitting next to Scottish national who told me kids still play "Rownders" on the playgroung in that far north part of the British Ilses.

The first official Baseball game, according to the oft reliable Wiki, was in 1846. The first "National League" was founded in 1876 and later, in 1903 an official National Association of Professional Base Ball Leagues was formed merging many rival semi or full pro Baseball franchises (again according to Wikipedia).

Since then we have seen the rise and fall of many of sports best dynastys, from the early dirty ball od Ty Cobb, to the New York Yankees stars over the years from babe Ruth to Lou Gerigh, the "luckiest man in the world" (who had a disease named after him) and of course Mickey Mantle.

The Negro leagues were segregated from the "Major Leagues." One player of note, and for the sake of brevity, and not out of disrespect I cannot mention many more players, Satchel Paige was probably one of the best pitchers in history. He however spent the majority of his career in the Negro leagues and didn't make his Major League debut unitl the age of 42, still an old age for players today, with the Cleavland Browns in 1948.

Of Course Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in 1947, something that changed baseball forever, and also a person I wrote a paper in College. His contribution is not worthy of my words at this time.

I need to go to bed, I will check back in on this topic soon. To be continued...

-Ben

Brand New Blog

This is my first blog page. I don't know if anybody will be interested in it but what I plan to cover are topics including the status of my life, cooking, restaurants, libations, travel and any other thing that think is interesting to write about.

As an introduction, I am 29 years old, I am back at school getting a teaching credential and really am at a loss for where my life is heading. Hopefully toward to good side of things.

I love to travel but don't have the money to do so. I really like going out to eat. I love doing outdoorsy things like camping and fishing. I also like just hanging out with friends, and I mean real friends, the backyard BBQ type of thing, not the, hey don't I know you from that bar sort.

Hopefully I will keep this thing up and you might be interested in what I have to say. Looking forward to it.

-Ben