History of Baseball

           Baseball was played in many countries and there’s really no evidence of who and when baseball was created. Some people say Abner Doubleday invented baseball but there is no evidence of him actually creating the game. There were similar games played so its said Baseball developed from the similar games in each country. For example a similar game was played in Romania in 1364 and it was called Oina. Onia was played with a bat and a hard small ball just like baseball but with different set of rules. The Russians played another similar game of baseball and it was known as Lapta. Lapta was played with just a batter and a pitcher, making the batters goal to run back and forth to score as much points as possible.

In 1845, Alexander Cartwright created the fundamental rules of the baseball played today. The first game recorded in history was on  June 19, 1846, it was between the New York Nine team and the Knickerbockers, the final score was 23-1 in favor of the New York team. Since baseball didn’t have a creator at the time they decided to make Alexander Cartwright as the inventor of baseball and was recorded in 1953. The number of baseball teams during the early 1960s in America dropped and caused a decrease in its popularity.

              Baseball spread all over the world because of the Civil War because the soldiers played the sport for fun making it interesting to other parts of the world. By the late 1960s, Baseball had became a daily played sport by everyone and it became a popular sport . The first professional baseball league was established in 1871 and called the National Association of Professional Baseball Players. The first league established outside United States was in Cuba in 1878. The Cubans were a very strong international team and now are very well-known by everyone.

If you want to read more about the history of baseball click the links below:

http://www.rpi.edu/~fiscap/history_files/history1.htm
http://www.athleticscholarships.net/history-of-baseball.htm
http://answers.yourdictionary.com/sports/who-invented-baseball.html