How long has baseball been an American sport?

Answer 1

Americans began playing baseball on informal teams, using local rules, in the early 1800s. By the 1860s, the sport, unrivaled in popularity, was being described as America's "national pastime." Alexander Joy Cartwright (1820-1892) of New York invented the modern baseball field in 1845. Alexander Cartwright and the members of his New York Knickerbocker Base Ball Club, devised the first rules and regulations for the modern game of baseball. Baseball was based on the English game of rounders. Rounders become popular in the United States in the early 19th century, where the game was called "townball", "base", or "baseball". Cartwright formalized the modern rules of baseball. The first recorded baseball game in 1846 when Alexander Cartwright's Knickerbockers lost to the New York Baseball Club. The game was held at the Elysian Fields, in Hoboken, New Jersey. In 1858, the National Association of Base Ball Players, the first organized baseball league was formed. * 1845: Alexander Cartwright published a set of baseball rules for the Knickerbocker Club of New York, and his rules were widely adopted. * 1869: The Cincinnati Red Stockings became the first openly-salaried team and are thus considered the first professional team. * 1871: The first professional baseball league, the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players, was established. * 1876: The first major league, the National League, was formed. * 1878: Frederick Winthrop Thayer of Massachusetts (captain of the Harvard University Baseball Club) received a patent for a baseball catcher's mask on February 12.

Answer 2

Heap Big question, there is some evidence that Baseball evolved out of an American Indian sun-worship custom known as the Sun Dance- not the Newman/Redford variety. Ripley popularized this theory in the twenties and in the sixties I can recall seeing some curious diagrams to back it up in Juvenile magazines-the basepaths originally (In Indian days) formed a continuous trench with spoil banks on the sides and a branch trench led directly to the Dugout- not the canoe variety! Like entering a garage form inside the house in modern buildings- I always thought this a very modern, Steve-Canyon all-weather touch- but it"s an old idea.

Answer 3

Baseball came about when cricket and rounders games evolved around the 1820's. Abner Doubleday did not invent the game but may have refined it to what it is today.

Answer 4

Baseball was first real baseball team was founded in 1871, so around the 1800s it was originated.

Answer 5

the game is 163 years old