who invented the sport of baseball?

Question

and what year?

Answer 1

It was Alexander Cartwright in the year 1845

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

Actually, Astrronomy has it exactly right. Even though he had to paste the info rather than know it himself. Abner Doubleday lived no where near Cooperstown in the summer of 1939. That summer, Doubleday was actually enrolled at West Point. The story about Doubleday creating baseball was concocted by a sporting goods company in the 1870s. Doubleday is widely credited with firing the first shots of the Civil War at Fort Sumtner, South Carolina. The sporting goods company wanted to market the "American" aspects of the game of baseball. Therefore, they used a story which included a well known war hero and appealed to people's patriotism to sell baseball equipment. It is not know if Doubleday ever even witnessed a baseball game.

The truth is, (an any baseball expert will agree, Georgie < you don't get many best answers, do you) The New York Knickerbockers club developed the sport over a period of years playing on the bluffs of Hoboken, NJ overlooking the Hudson River. The Knickerbocker club wrote the first set of true rules for the game that would become known as baseball.

Answer 3

Definately Abner Doubleday.

Answer 4

Abner Doubleday is considered by all the baseball experts to be the father of baseball. 1839.

Those who dispute that fact clearly do not know thier baseball.

Answer 5

alexander cartwright 1845 in hoboken, nj. some say abner doubleday invented the sport but he just coppied a game called rounders from the dumb brittish

Answer 6

watch Ken Burns' "Baseball" Documentary....its a set of 10 DVDs and you will know more about the history of baseball than you ever thought existed...it is so much information that you would have to watch it over and over again to take it all in.....I highly recommend it

Answer 7

Who:Abner Doublday
When:1839
Where:Cooperstown, New York

Answer 8

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Answer 9

I believe it was Abner Doubleday

Answer 10

all i kno is dat his b-day is on june26 ????