Who invented baseball and in what year?

Answer 1

Abner Doubleday, Spring of 1848.

Answer 2

The Abner Doubleday "creationism" story is a total myth. The myth was created in the early 1900s by a commission that was established to "prove" that baseball was a purely American game. Its findings were based on the contents of a letter sent by an 90 year old man to the commission at the last minute. (Up to that point the commission had been utterly unable to "prove" baseball was created in the US.) He claimed that Abner Doubleday "invented" baseball in 1839 in Cooperstown. The myth was later dispelled beyond dispute. The fact is, Abner Doubleday was not in Cooperstown in 1839 and he never claimed to have anything to do with the invention of baseball... Previous posters are correct that baseball evolved from a long line of ball and stick games going back hundreds of years. In this country, the evolution of the game into something vaguely familiar to what we have today can be traced to Alexander Cartwright and the New York Knickerbocker club in 1845. Cartwright laid down a set of rules that began to resemble what we think of today as baseball, although numerous changes would be made to the rules through the 1890s before it really became a "modern" game.

Answer 3

A Blue Ribbon Commission by Baseball in the 1950s determined Abner Doubleday invented the game in Cooperstown, N.Y. in the 1850s. This however is legend. More likely it evolved from a game called Rounders as well as others in NY and Boston around that time

Answer 4

No one knows, for sure. As the copy>paste out of Wikipedia above shows, there is a myth about Doubleday being the creator of the game.

As an aside, stick and ball games can be traced as far back as Egyptian times. SABR has a 19th Century committee, but there has been discussions of an 18th Century committee. John Thorn, an outstanding baseball historian and man who studies its origins is always looking for when the game started. Funny thing is... he keeps finding dates for Rounders/Cricket type ball and stick games with bases involved that are moving farther back in time.

Answer 5

The game basically evolved from earlier games, so no single person can claim to have invented it. (The Abner Doubleday story is regarded by all serious historians as untrue.) To the extent that any single person can be given credit, that person would be Alexander Cartwright, who wrote what is known as the Knickerbocker Rules in 1845. Those rules are the oldest ones that can directly trace their lineage to the modern game.

Answer 6

Abner Doubleday in the 1800's.

Answer 7

Abner Doubleday started baseball...try to find a website....good luck.
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Answer 8

bob dole in 1793

Answer 9

nelson doubleday

Answer 10

i say native american origin i dont know for sure though, im native american tough and proud of it.