About

Baseball is a sport loved by many all around the world. For centuries people have enjoyed what is now known as Americas's sport. Baseball has been traced to France from a picture from 1344 of people playing a game called "la soule" that is similar to baseball. The earliest known reference to baseball was in England from a 1744 publication which provided a similar description to what

we know as baseball. In the early 1830s early forms of baseball were being played all across North America and was commonly referred to as "town ball". A theory believed by many was that a man named Abner Doubleday invented baseball in Cooperstown, New York, but has since been debunked numerous times by sport enthusiasts. Alexander Cartwright is known as the father

of modern baseball by implementing the nearly identical rules to today's called the "Knickerbocker Rules" after the Knickerbocker Club he was a member of. The first official game in the United States was on June 19, 1846, in Hoboken, New Jersey, with the New York Nine beating the Knickerbockers, 23-1. Over the next half-century these original rules evolved to what we have today.