what came first baseball or cricket?

Answer 1

cricket - A basic form of cricket can be traced back to the 13th century, but it may have existed even earlier than that. The game seems to have originated among children of the farming and metalworking communities in the Weald between Kent and Sussex. Written evidence exists of a game known as creag being played by Prince Edward, the son of Edward I (Longshanks), at Newenden, Kent in 1300.

In 1598, a court case referred to a sport called kreckett being played at the Royal Grammar School, Guildford around 1550. The Oxford English Dictionary gives this as the first recorded instance of cricket in the English language.

baseball came later :
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).

Answer 2

Baseball of Course. The baseball game was practiced by cavemen as early as the Late Jurassic period. However it is played differently then. Cavemen use Clubs(pre-historic baseball bat) and try to strike a Cavewomens head. and when un-concious, the Caveman carries his Cavewomen and makes a home-run trying to evade the relatives of the relatives of the Cavewoman to avoid certain death. If successful he will have a new wife. :)

Answer 3

cricket dates back to 1500s but wasnt really played until early 1700s

Answer 4

cricket