Basketball vs.

Baseball

By: Rick Crofts

 History of Basketball
Dr. James Naismith is known world-wide as the inventor of
basketball. He was born in 1861 in Ramsay township Ontario,
Canada. The concept of basketball was born from Naismith's school
days in the area where he played a simple child's game known as
duck-on-a-rock outside his one-room schoolhouse. The game
involved attempting to knock a "duck" off the top of a large rock by
tossing another rock at it.
Later on, Naismith watched his sport, basketball, introduced in many
nations by the YMCA movement as early as 1893. Basketball was
introduced at the Berlin Olympics in 1936. Naismith was flown to
Berlin to watch the games. He died in Lawrence, Kansas, in 1939.
 History of Baseball
Alexander Joy Cartwright (1820-1892) of New York invented the
modern baseball field in 1845. Alexander Cartwright and the
members of his New York Knickerbockers Base Ball Club,
devised the first rules and regulations for the modern game of
baseball.
The first recorded baseball game in 1846 when Alexander
Cartwright's Knickerbockers lost to the New York Baseball
Club. The game was held at the Elysian Fields, in Hoboken,
New Jersey. In 1858, the National Association of Base Ball
Players, the first organized baseball league was formed.
 Basketball Now
The Rules of basketball have changed a little bit since Dr.
James Naismith made them up in 1861. Many of the NBA
players now are very young and some coming straight out of
high school. And other NBA players are coming from over
seas.

And along with playing in the NBA the players are getting paid
an amazing amount of money.

Basketball is a rising sport and is being played all over the

world.
 Baseball Now
Baseball is said to be Americas pastime.

Players co not go straight to the pros. Each

MLB player has went through some kind of
farm league and has worked very hard to get
to the majors.

Baseball is played year round in some

countries and all over the world.
 Similarities
Basketball and Baseball teams play over
one hundred games during a season.
Both sports have a very good amount of
ethnicity throughout the game.
Basketball players and Baseball players
doth get paid very well along with
endorsement deals.
 My Favorite
I love basketball and baseball both
equally.