Who founded Major League Baseball?

Answer 1

Founder of MLBAbner Doubleday founded Baseball after watching people in a corn field with a stick hit a wooden ball. After he asked what they were doing, the men said the object of the game is to hit the ball with the stick. If it is hit in the air, it is to be caught before it hits the ground. If it hits the ground, then the person with the ball is to try to tag the hitter with the ball before he scores a run. Back then, there were no "outs", "strikes", "balls" or "foul balls".

The MLB began with the formation of the National League in 1876. It was started because Chicago owner William Hulbert was trying to avoid punishment for robbing the Boston organization in the National Association of four of its players in 1875. In midseason he had secretly signed them for the following season.

Others consider the founder of Major League Baseball was Sir Francis G. Ripley In 1789. He grew up in Boston Mass. When he was living in the south after moving he invented this game but it was called ball hitting back then. About 30 years later it was named stikball then baseball shortly after. Francis Was considered the founder of this and was honored by all the people.

Answer 2

Contrary to the myth that Abner Doubleday originated the sport in 1839 in Cooperstown, New York, a form of baseball was played in the 1820s, if not before. The sport probably originated in England from games like cricket and rounders, in which players struck a ball with a stick and ran to a base. In 1748, an English woman recorded that the family of the Prince of Wales played baseball. George Washington's army at Valley Forge played a game of "base." By the 1840s, different types of baseball had developed in Pennsylvania, New York, and New England. In 1845, Alexander Cartwright, a New York bank teller, proposed rules borrowed from these various forms to organize the sport for middle-class gentlemen. Unlike today, pitchers threw underhand, the winning team had to score twenty-one runs, and batters were out if hit by a thrown ball or when a hit was caught on one bounce. But Cartwright's rules did require play on a diamond-shaped field with bases ninety feet apart, nine players on the field, and three outs to an inning.

Answer 3

This is an undefined question. It is undefined of who invented the game, but previously, many people have said that it was invented by Abner Doubleday, but that has been proved wrong. He was in Cooperstown, a sleepy little town, that scince 1939, has been home to the Hall Of Fame. After they proved Abner Doubleday wrong, they looked at a pitcher named Al Spalding. He was no good. They have since proved many other people wrong, so my best guess it that there was no single inventor. But one thing is for sure; Baseball has evolved from the old English games of Rounders and Criket, where you hit a pitched ball with a bat, and run. They just changed the field, the equipment, and the rules.

Answer 4

First people thought it was Abner Doubleday who discovered baseball. However, that is only a myth. The first published rules were written by Alexander Cartwright in 1845