Who Invented Baseball? | Pastball Podcast #16

Who Invented Baseball? Many people have heard and think that Abner Doubleday invented the game known as baseball in Cooperstown NY home of the baseball HOF during the summer of 1839. As it turns out, the real history of baseball is a little more complicated than the Doubleday legend. The game appears to be a mix between rounders and cricket. In 1845 the NY Knickerbocker Baseball Club formed and created rules called the laws of Baseball that would form the basis for modern baseball with the diamond-shaped infield, foul lines, and three-strike rule and got rid of the getting runners out by throwing balls at them. The Knickerbockers played the first official game of baseball against a team of cricket players starting the American tradition. Knickerbocker club president Doc Adams gets called the Father of Baseball and Doubleday gets his share of credit no one person invented it it was a communal effort largely in part to the Knickerbocker Baseball Club of NY. This is Past Ball Podcast and as the Great Bob Uecker said Get Up Get Outta Here! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.