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Changing Of Baseball Essay

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The Changing of Baseball

Drake Irwin
Albia Community Schools
English 9
Mrs. La Rue
February 27, 2023
The Changing of Baseball

With the game of baseball changing, it comes with a great impact on entertainment for you and others around the world, also with safety of MLB players coming first. Since the MLB began a long time ago the equipment and other things have changed a lot, things like baseballs, cleats, helmets, gloves, and even attendance in stadiums. The game of baseball is one of America's greatest pastimes, while the game has not changed much, the objects used in it have, as it has been for the better of the players and fans. Over time, the ball used in the sport has evolved. Initially, the ball was very small. In the 1920s, however, …show more content…

At first, the gloves had little to no padding, but people realized they could do better and made new types of gloves with padding and size variations to help the players compete at a higher level. At first gloves were made of leather with it being stitched together (Smith, n.d.; Epic Sports, 2023). It was shown it did not help the players much and did not protect them much either, so the players knew they needed change. So most now are made of a synthetic material (Smith, n.d.). The MLB and players made changes to the gloves to make them more comfortable and safer for the players. Now today the gloves are growing in size and they have added more padding to protect the players and have it fit more comfortably (Smith, n.d.). This shows the MLB successfully succeeded in a way to help the players feel more comfortable and …show more content…

With recent studies the totals have been noticed to go up when the fans teams are doing well (Cosler, 2019). This shows that it’s not always just baseball, but it’s the teams who are playing it, so the teams could try to sign more fun and exciting players for fans to enjoy (Cosler, 2019). This could also help the team become better with the better people playing for them. Teams could also try to make some things cheaper at the ballpark on certain nights, so fans will not have to pay so much for every single game they attend (Cosler, 2019). This could also possibly help with people not being so annoyed with their teams as well. Some teams could also use a little help in the social media world, by posting more fun and exciting things to really get the fans excited to attend games (Cosler, 2019). This would help because people always have their phones with them and if they see something exciting coming from the MLB then maybe they would be excited and think about attending the

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