What year did baseball start? The summer of 1839, a game known as baseball was invented in Cooperstown, New York by a man named Abner Doubleday. Doubleday then went onto become a Civil War hero and baseball became the beloved national pastime for America. In 1839, Doubleday was still at west Point and never did he claim having anything to do with baseball. Not only was the story untrue but it wasn’t even in the ballpark. A special commission in 1907 created by the sporting goods magnate and former major league player A.J. Spalding used flimsy evidence namely the claims of one man, mining engineer Abner Graves to come up with the Doubleday story. Cooperstown businessmen and major league officials relied on the myth’s enduring power in the 1930 when they established the national Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in the village. Cooperstown businessmen and major league officials would rely on the myth’s enduring power in the 1930s, when they established the National Baseball Hall of Fame and …show more content…
As it turns out, there references to a game resembling baseball dated back to the 18th century in The United States. The most direct ancestors appear to be two English games, rounder’s a children’s game brought to New England by the earliest colonists and cricket. Variations of games were being played on schoolyards and college campuses across the country by the time of the American Revolution. In the 19th century they become even more popular in the newly industrialized cities where men sought for work. A group of New York City men in September 1945 founded the New York Knickerbocker Baseball Club. One of them a volunteer firefighter and a bank clerk Alexander Joy Cartwright codified a new set of rules that formed basic for modern baseball, calling for diamond shaped infield, foul lines and three strike rule. He abolished the dangerous practice of tagging runner’s by throwing balls at