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The story that a Abner Doubleday invented Baseball in 1839 is easily proven to be complete hokum, and based ENTIRELY on the "recollections" of a person who died in an insane asylum. That person would have been five years old in 1839, when Doubleday was a first-year student at West Point Academy. There is no evidence that Doubleday left West Point that year, and getting leave to do so was almost impossible for a freshman at that time.
In 1791, the game of "baseball" was explicitly forbidden to be played within eighty yards of the city hall of Pittsfield. How that outlawed game compared to our present game is impossible to know.
The first WRITTEN rules of a game, in which batters are out by being tagged with a ball (instead of being hit by a thrown ball, a basic rule of town ball), was done in 1845. These were called the "New York Rules." In 1857, a convention of teams playing these rules decided to make the game nine innings long, and a year later they added an umpire to rule that a batter would get three "warnings" about not swinging at a hittable ball.
Within a decade or so, most teams were playing a game that could be recognized as the game today.
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What is the name of the person invented baseball?
Abner Doubleday invented baseball.
When was baseball invented and by who?
alexander joy cartwright invented baseball in 1845
What is the person's name that invented baseball?
Abner Doubleday invented baseball as a sport
Was baseball invented in 1888?
no it was invented in 1744
Where and when was the baseball ball invented?
The ball was invented in Egypt and South America.
Why is baseball invented?
While noone knows who, when or where baseball was invented, it is certain it was created for recreation.
What was invented first football or baseball?
baseball
Why was the baseball bat invented?
It was invented so that when playing baseball the players could hit the baseball with something to score runs.
Where is the baseball invented?
Baseball was derived from any of a number of English schoolyard games (rounders, cricket, etc.), and it is unknown when where or how baseball was invented.
What price would a 1622 baseball glove sale for?
No baseball gloves were invented in 1622.MORE The game of baseball was invented in 1860.
Was baseball invented at Fort Sumter?
No, but Abner Doubleday who invented baseball's rules was stationed there as a union officer.
Who invented baseball and softball?
George Hancock invented Softball
