Cleat Question From Dad/Hoops Ref

[DG]

In my playing days cleats were round and on the bottom of football shoes. There was no soccer in my neighborhood, or anywhere I else I knew of, but if there had been they would have been wearing cleats also.

My baseball shoes had spikes on them, as in "Ty Cobb was sharpening his spikes". When did we start calling basebal spikes cleats and why did we do that?

The usual age at which players moved up from rubber spikes to metal was age 13, coinciding with move up to 90 foot bases. Local variations may apply. And it may be notable that you can buy baseball spikes that are not made of metal and everybody 13 and above does not use metal. It's not mandatory to use metal on the big bases.