Which country was baseball first played?

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Answer 1

Abner Doubleday is granted with the invention of baseball. He actually copied a game that was being played in Canada by the Indians there. He tweeked it a bit and called it baseball. I would say Canada was where baseball truly originated it.

Answer 2

Okay, one more time...

England. "The earliest known mention of the sport is in a 1744 British publication, 'A Little Pretty Pocket-Book,' by John Newbery. It contains a wood-cut illustration of boys playing 'base-ball,' showing a set-up roughly similar to the modern game, and a rhymed description of the sport."

The game is a derivative of two other English games, rounders and cricket. All were taken across the Atlantic by colonists.

The game played by Indians in what would become Canada and the northeastern U.S. is lacrosse, which bears no resemblance whatsoever to baseball. It is still played today.

In America, there were two versions of baseball: the "Massachussetts game," which was more like cricket, and the "New York game," which is the direct ancestor of modern baseball. Alexander Cartwright codified the rules of the New York game in 1845; the first recognized game under these rules was played between the New York Knickerbockers, a private club, and the New York Nine, who won the game, 21-7 (the rules specified that the first team to score 21 runs won the game).

Abner Doubleday had absolutely nothing to do with baseball, period. He did hail from Cooperstown, New York, but at the time he was supposed to be inventing baseball in a cow pasture (1839), he was a cadet at the U.S. Military Academy and would have had to have been AWOL, which would have gotten him expelled. After his death, he was named as baseball's inventor by a special committee based on unreliable testimony and faked documents by a single individual. The truth is that had Doubleday invented baseball, he would certainly have trumpeted the fact in his voluminous personal diaries (which have been preserved). Doubleday never mentioned the game despite the fact that it was played during the Civil War; Doubleday was a division commander at the battle of Gettysburg and promoted to corps command when General Reynolds was killed.

Cartwright was inducted into the baseball Hall of Fame. Doubleday was not.

Answer 3

In the United States...Specifically, historians have always said in New York in 1839, but the recent discovery of a document from 1791 in Pittsfield, MA uses the term baseball. If it can be confirmed that their "baseball" is actually referring to a recognizable version of todays game, then baseball as we know it was invented around/before 1791.

Answer 4

The USA. That was where we first started calling the game baseball. Sure, it was evolved from games like cricket and rounders, but it was in New York and New England that people first started calling the game "baseball".

Answer 5

in new york, USA. the first offical game was played in 1846, the new york knickerbokers vs the new york baseball club. Also cricket was an early form of baseball as we know it.

Answer 6

The consensus of historians is that it evolved from bat-and-ball games, such as rounders, brought to the continent by British and Irish immigrants. By the late nineteenth century, baseball was widely recognized as the national sport of the United States. The game is sometimes referred to as hardball to differentiate it from similar sports such as softball.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

Baseball as we know it was first played in the USA but it is a variation of other games such as cricket.

Answer 9

Baseball, in its present glorious self, is an American game, influenced by rounders an English game. Baseball is American.

Answer 10

America, i don't know where in America it was first played but it was played in this country first