Which country invented baseball?

Answer 1

I thought it was Abner Doubleday too until I read this



The distinct evolution of baseball from among the various bat-and-ball games is difficult to trace with precision. While there has been general agreement that modern baseball is a North American development from the older game rounders, the 2006 book Baseball Before We Knew It: A Search for the Roots of the Game, by David Block, argues against that notion.[1] 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 earliest known American reference to the game was published in a 1791 Pittsfield, Massachusetts, statute that prohibited the playing of baseball within 80 yards of the town's new meeting house. The English novelist Jane Austen made a reference to children playing "base-ball" on a village green in her book Northanger Abbey, which was written between 1798 and 1803 (though not published until 1818).

The first full documentation of a baseball game in North America is Dr. Adam Ford's contemporary description of a game that took place in 1838 on June 4 (Militia Muster Day) in Beachville, Ontario; this report was related in an 1886 edition of Sporting Life magazine in a letter by former St. Marys, Ontario, resident Dr. Matthew Harris. In 1845, Alexander Cartwright of New York City led the codification of an early list of rules (the so-called Knickerbocker Rules), from which today's have evolved. While there are reports of Cartwright's club, the New York Knickerbockers, playing games in 1845, the game now recognized as the first in U.S. history to be officially recorded took place on June 19, 1846, in Hoboken, New Jersey, with the "New York Nine" defeating the Knickerbockers, 23–1, in four innings.

Answer 2

Who Invented Baseball

Answer 3

Where Was Baseball Invented

Answer 4

Give the points to Aceman. Baseball was invented in England and traveled across the Atlantic to the American colonies and Canada. Abner Doubleday did NOT invent baseball, never played baseball, and never, never, NEVER had anything to do whatsoever with baseball. He was an obscure Civil War general who wrote voluminous diaries, NONE of which contain even a single instance of the word "baseball," let alone any mention of the game. He was a cadet at the U.S. Military Academy at the time he was supposed to have been inventing baseball in Cooperstown, New York, and would have had to have been AWOL to do so, an offense for which he would have been expelled. Doubleday was dead when a special commission declared him the inventor of the game, based on information since proven to be spurious.

The ball game played by the Indians in Canada is lacrosse, which does not resemble baseball in any particulars, and is still played today.

Don't ever believe anyone who still insists Abner Doubleday invented baseball. It just isn't so.

Answer 5

This Site Might Help You.

RE:
Which country invented baseball?

Answer 6

Canada, I love you to death, and I'll let you guys have basketball, but baseball is ours dang it! Forms of it were played in the US in the 1700s, but the first game with modern rules (real modern baseball, as we know it today) was in 1845 in NYC. The father of baseball, who was inducted into the baseball hall of fame for inventing it, was Alexander Cartwright. That Doubleday guy actually never claimed to have been an inventor. In fact he was still at West Point in 1839 when the accusation was made. There was a claim that it started in 1838 in Ontario, but those weren't modern rules as we know them today.

Answer 7

Alexander Joy Cartwright was credited with developing the first set of rules for the game of baseball in 1845. I think regardless of what other games baseball draws its influences from in its present form it is a uniquely American game. The rules of baseball as played in other countries are taken from the American rules. So, I would say the game of baseball in its present form was in fact invented in America.

Answer 8

For the best answers, search on this site https://shorturl.im/axMsi

The question of the origins of baseball has been the subject of debate and controversy for more than a century. Baseball and the other modern bat, ball and running games, cricket and rounders, were developed from earlier folk games in England.

Answer 9

United States of America

Answer 10

Aceman is correct, Abner Doubleday is credited with the invention of baseball, but it was actually Alexander Cartwright.