Baseball history.

Very little is known about the origins of baseball. Question has been the subject of debate and controversy for more than 100 years. Baseball (and softball), as well as other modern bat, ball and running games, cricket and rounders, were developed from the beginning of the game people.
Many of the previous game similar to each other, but certainly there are local, regional and national variations, both in how they play and what they are called: the name includes "stoolball", "poison ball", and "goal ball". Some details about how the modern game evolved from earlier folk games are known. Some think that various folk games resulted in a town called ball game, from which baseball was finally born.

Beginning Baseball Reference
The first explicit reference to baseball appears to come from the UK. The earliest known mention of the sport is in a 1744 publication, A Little Pretty Pocket-Book by John Newbery. It contains a wood-cut illustrations boys playing "baseball" (shows a similar set-up to the modern game) and a rhymed description of the sport. Also, a letter came from England in 1748 by Lady Hervey describes how the then Prince of Wales divert time to play baseball. The English author Jane Austen specifically mentions the game of baseball in his novel, Northanger Abbey, which was played by the protagonist, Catherine Moreland. This book was first written in 1798 and revised until the publication in 1803.

Origins of Stoolball :

1) In stoolball, which was developed by the 11th century, one player throws the ball to the target, while the other players to defend the target. Stob-ball and the ball was stow-regional games similar to stoolball.
In Stob ball and ball stow the target may be a tree stump, as both "Stob" and "stow" means the stump in some dialects. ("Stow" can also refer to the type of frame used in mining). What initially targeted at stoolball uncertain. It could be a stump, because "bench" in the old Sussex dialect means stump.
2) According to one legend, milkmaids stoolball play while waiting for their husbands return from the fields. Another theory is that stoolball developed as a game played after attending a church service, in this case the target was probably a pew. Initially, this bench is maintained with bare hands. Then, a type of bat used (stoolball modern, very heavy bat ping-pong paddles are used).

Clear regional variations :

There are several versions stoolball. In the initial version, it is mainly to maintain the bench. Managed to maintain bench counted for one point, and the batter out if the ball hit the bench. There is walking involved. Another version involved stoolball running between two stools, and assessment are similar to the score in cricket. In another version there may be some benches, and points were scored by running around them like in baseball.
For various versions stoolball, and therefore not only played in England, but also in colonial America, stoolball considered by many to have been the basis of not only cricket, but both baseball and rounders as well.

Cricket

Cricket history before 1650 is something of a mystery. Games believed to be similar to cricket has been developed by the 13th century. There is a game called "Creag", and other games, Handyn and Handoute (Hands On and Hands Out), which was made illegal in 1477 by King Edward IV, who considered childish games, and disruption compulsory archery practice.
Reference to the actual game called "cricket" appeared around 1550. It is believed that the word cricket is based both on the word cric, which means probably a crooked stick shepherd's asshole (an early form of cricket using bat slightly curved like a hockey stick), or the word Flemish "krickstoel", which refers to a bench on which the kneeling in church.
There is at least one officially open for membership Cricket Club, founded in 1846 in the United States in New York. However it seems that the popularity of the sport is reduced during the US civil war, for the baseball become a more popular sport.

Early baseball

A game called "base-ball" has been developed in England in the early 18th century, and it continued to be called "baseball" until after 1800. It is mentioned in a book published in 1744 called Little Pretty Pocket-Book. As with all games of the people, there are many variations. Similar played in America long before 1800.
Rules for "baseball" appeared in 1796, in a German book by Johann Guts Muths, who called the game "base-ball UK". In a game that was described by Guts Muths, the amount of base varies with the number of players, and one out of retirement entire side.
In Northanger Abbey (written in 1798), Jane Austen wrote (emphasis added): (Catherine) prefer cricket, base ball, horseback riding, and running about the country, at the age of fourteen, to books.
In 2004, historian John Thorn discovered refers to regulations that prohibit anyone from playing "baseball" within 80 yards of the new meeting house in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. A librarian found the actual by-law at the Berkshire Athenaeum library, and age verified by researchers at the Williamstown Art Conservation Center.
If authentic and if actually referring to a recognizable version of the modern game, from the 1791 document, will, in 2004, the earliest known reference to the game in America.

Abner Doubleday invent baseball?

Contrary to the once widely promoted theory Abner Doubleday invented baseball (probably in 1839), there is no evidence other than the testimony that he was a man decades after the fact. Doubleday, in fact, never claimed that he did it. Legend has it's own discovery discovery Doubleday Al Spalding, former star pitcher who has been a sports goods manufacturer. Throughout the second half of the 19th century, the debate rages over the origins of baseball. To end the debate and speculation, Spalding panel held in 1907. The panel consists of Spalding, two United States Senators (one of the former president of the National League), two former presidents of the National League, and two other former star turned entrepreneur sporting goods (George Wright and Alfred Reach). The final report requires three parts: a written summary of the findings of the panel by Spalding, a letter by John M. Ward supporting panels, and has a different opinion by Henry Chadwick. The research method was, at best, dubious. Not the history of Spalding was after, but the story was perfect: baseball was found in an ancient village and less unfamiliar city has a shortage of industrial by a young man who later graduated West Point, and became a hero in the Mexican-American War, Civil War, and in the fight against India.
Summary Spalding concluded that baseball was invented by Doubleday in Cooperstown, New York in 1839; that Doubleday had found the word baseball, designing diamond, showing the position of catcher, write the rules and regulations of the field. However, no written record of the 1839 or 1840s been found to prove this claim Doubleday also not be questioned, because he had died in 1893. The main source for the conclusions of the panel is the testimony of Abner Graves 1907, five years Cooperstown population in 1839 . Graves, however, never mentioned a diamond, the position or the rules of writing. Graves' questionable reliability as a witness because he was later convicted of murdering his wife and spent the last days in an asylum for the criminally insane. To further cloud the findings of the panel, not in Cooperstown Doubleday in 1839. He enrolled at West Point, and there is no record of any leave time. AG Mills, a lifelong friend of Doubleday's, had never heard mention Doubleday creates baseball.
At his death, Doubleday supply left many letters and papers, none of which describe baseball, or give suggestions Doubleday considers himself a prominent figure in the evolution of the game. A free article on Doubleday published in 1911 not to mention the game.
As noted elsewhere in the text, the version of the rules of baseball since been found in a publication that significantly predates the alleged discovery in 1839.
Jeff Idelson of the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York has stated, "Baseball was not really born anywhere," which means that the evolution of the game was long and continuous and not clear, identifiable single origin.
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