Esta presentación muestra la historia del bassball en united kingdom.

1. Ismael Andrés Navarro.
Topic: baseball in the united
kingdom.
Universidad popular del cesar
2016

2. Baseball…
A game of ball between two nine
-
player teams played usually for
nineinnings on a field that has a
s a focal point a diamond
shaped infield
with a home plate and three
other bases.

4. Origins of baseball
The evolution of baseball from
older bat-and-ball games is
difficult to trace with precision.
A French manuscript from 1344
contains an illustration of clerics
playing a game, possibly la soule,
with similarities to baseball

5. Other old French games such
as thèque, la balle au bâton,
and la balle empoisonnée also
appear to be related. Consensus
once held that today's baseball
is a North American .

6. Baseball in the
united kingdom
In 1890 the international version of
the game was introduced to the
United Kingdom in Derby by Francis
Ley, a Derby man who had
'discovered' the game on a trip to
the United States,

7. O The competition
was hindered by
poor weather and
disappointing
crowds and made
a loss to its
investors
O Pressure from
other teams in the
league over the
number of
American players
on the Derby team
forced Derby to
resign at the end
of the league's
first season,
though the
baseball club itself
lasted until 1898.

8. Resurgence prior to WWII
O Baseball's peak
popularity in
Britain was in the
years immediately
preceding World
War II.
O One milestone of
baseball in the
United Kingdom
was the 1938
victory of Great
Britain over the
United States in
the 1938.

9. At present
O There have been
numerous league
formats since 1890.
The British Baseball
Federation (BBF) is
the governing body
for baseball in the UK
and the baseball
leagues.
O There are currently
four tiers in the
national game. The
highest level is the
National League
followed by AAA,
AA and A.