By Madelyn and Mia

History of baseballPage 1 Babe RuthPage 2 The baseball playersPage 3 The MascotsPage 4

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.

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.

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.

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.

 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).

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 5