Traditional Schooling Vs. Online Schooling
A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings. Just imagine if the game of baseball was never even invented? We can thank our lucky stars for the invention of that life changing sport, by Abner Doubleday. Not only was he the creator of baseball, he also played a major role in the United States by freeing of slaves. (Kirsh 4) Abner Doubleday changed American Society forever, with the invention of America’s game, and his role in the Battle of Gettysburg. The world changed forever when the first game was played in 1839 in Cooperstown, New York. (Kirsh 7) Abner laid in a cow pasture with his good friend Elihu Phinney on a sunny summer day. They had one problem; they didn’t know what to do. Abner began talking of a new sport he was thinking about calling it baseball. He explained to Elihu how this great idea could come to life. (Heidler 24) For the next two days, Abner went into the tannery and made 3 square leather pouches. He then made a long wooden handle that got shorter on the one end. He took them out to the pasture, took an old cow patty, and rolled it into a ball, then that’s where the great American sport of baseball was born! (Kirsh 13) Word about this new game spread around town and the area real quick. With every successful and upcoming thing, there’s a large amount of doubters. People mocked Abner for his fantasies of people interacting through the game of baseball. (Kirsh 29) Doubleday was ridiculed and made fun of for his actions. People questioned if this silly game would actually become important. Baseball was soon to be on the rise. As Abner Doubleday and the game of baseball grew larger in popularity, so did the stories that were told about him. People often talked about this so called "inventor" of baseball. (Blade 32) In only 6 years, baseball was being played all over the northern part of the United States. Once being looked at as a loser tossing a ball around old Elihu Phinney's cow pasture