Baseball has had many names, but it's thought to have originated as the English game called Rounders. Other names included 'base' and 'town ball.' That's not the only thing in baseball with...

Tee Ball was developed in the early 1950s to make baseball more accessible. This was forward-thinking and decades ahead of its time. Unsurprisingly, toddlers and kids have a much easier time hitting...

Baseball bats have been around as long as the game itself, but William Shroyer patented the first metal bat in 1924. It would be almost another fifty years before players used them in the...

The first cleats were invented by Shoemaker Cornelius Johnson around 1525 for King Henry VIII to play soccer. By 1860 cleats were often attached to shoes in the US. However, it was Reebok that put...

Surprisingly, though they'd been around for a while, football players in the National Football League didn't start wearing sticky football gloves for better grip until 1999. That's not very long,...

When Thomas Lee invented the Adirondack style chair in 1903, he initially called them Westport. The name was inspired by the fact that he was on vacation in Westport, New York. He wanted to...