2007-01-31 08:29:25 · 10 answers · asked by mmwren4 1 in Sports ➔ Baseball
Actually, no serious baseball historian still believes the Doubleday story. Baseball evolved from earlier games, but the earliest thing directly connected to the modern game is a set of rules called the "Knickerbocker Rules" that were written by Alexander Cartwright in 1845. Though it's likely he was large just putting to paper the game that was already being played, he remains the best person that could be regarded as the "inventor" of the game.
2007-01-31 10:04:01 · answer #1 · answered by JerH1 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Abner Doubleday, who also fired the first shot in return at Fort Sumtner, during the start of the civil war.
2007-02-01 15:11:28 · answer #2 · answered by Travis R 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its called America's Past time for a reason! Americans Invented it
2007-01-31 23:15:44 · answer #3 · answered by gapp2gapp 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It wasn't Doubleday, though he has been attributed as the inventor of baseball for a while.
2007-02-01 01:01:58 · answer #4 · answered by badgerlicious03 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most people agree that it was a man named Abner Doubleday, although this is in dispute. We may never know the real truth.
2007-01-31 17:08:07 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
abner doubleday invented baseball in cooperstown, new york in 1839, supposedly in a cow pasture.
2007-01-31 18:16:13 · answer #6 · answered by lp 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No one.
It evolved from a number of other games and pretty much grew in to something that we might recognize today as baseball. The rules were codified by Alexander Cartwright, but he wasn't writing the, them recording what was already being loosely used.
2007-01-31 16:37:54 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
i agree with kevin. It was abner doubleday.
2007-01-31 18:01:17 · answer #8 · answered by cy 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
abner doubleday
2007-01-31 16:35:40 · answer #9 · answered by kevin s 1 · 0⤊ 3⤋
It just ... happened?
2007-02-01 21:36:20 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋