This article is 2 years old. The controversial figure whose memoir formed the basis of Leonardo DiCaprio's unhinged stockbroker in Martin Scorsese's Oscar-nominated black comedy The Wolf of Wall Street has revealed his debauched life of sex and drugs was even worse than shown in the film.
A baseball pitcher is getting ready to throw the ball. ERA in baseballs stands for âearned run average.â It is used to measure a pitcherâs performance and was originally created during the 1900s to rate the effectiveness of relief pitchers. Today, it is one of most widely recognized statistics used to assess a pitcherâs ability.
Modern baseball evolved from the English game of rounders in the first half of the 19th century. Alexander Cartwright of New York formulated the basic rules of baseball in 1845, calling for the replacement of the soft ball used in rounders with a smaller hard ball.