where did baseball originate from??? rounders ??

Answer 1

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] Several references to "baseball" and "bat-and-ball" have been found in English and American documents of the early eighteenth century.[2] The earliest known description 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 unambiguous American discussion of "baseball" was published in a 1791 Pittsfield, Massachusetts, statute that prohibited the playing of the game within 80 yards of the town's new meeting house.[3] 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, Canada; 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. He had also initiated the replacement of the soft ball used in rounders with a smaller hard ball.[4] 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

There was a debate about this on Chan five baseball in the UK and it was explained that baseball started b4 rounders so....no baseball didnt stem from rounders its the other way round.

Answer 3

Alexander Cartwright, who headed a rules committee in 1845, is the one who drew out the first diamond, established the dimensions, and wrote the rules.

The first game played under Cartwright's rules was in Hoboken, New Jersey in 1846.

Abner Doubleday had nothing to do with the origin of baseball, and neither did Cooperstown, New York.

Answer 4

I did a huge report on where baseball originated and how it changed the American Culture last year. It was about ten pages long. It could be as far back as the 16th century in Egypt it was a similar type of game to baseball and they did it for rituals.Go to the baseball hall of fame in Cooperstown,NY you will see the picture of people from Egypt playing a game similar to baseball.

Answer 5

Baseball is mentioned in Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen.They probably both came from the same original sport.The Americans deliberately lied and hid evidence to prove they invented baseball for political reasons..

Answer 6

Abner Doubleday invented the game of baseball. Its origins probably stem from the English game of cricket.

Answer 7

Look here for all the deeds-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseball

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