Baseball's invention

[BstnRdSx]

sepsportsfanatic said:

wow that sounds exactly like me, excpet i fail math cause i already know what there teaching me so I dont even pay attention or do my HW, then when a test comes around I ace it and the teacher is like "wow, you must have cheated" well he doesnt say that but i know he thinks it.

That's like saying, "I got shot..well, not really, but the guy with the gun wanted to shoot me."

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bstnrdsx said:

That's like saying, "I got shot..well, not really, but the guy with the gun wanted to shoot me."

the stuff you compare other things to....amazes me

[nafsder2007]

There is no correct answer to the question. Baseball is simply an adaptation of an English game by the name of Rounders (similar to cricket) that became popular around the country in the early 19th century under the name "baseball." Cartwright's claim to fame is that he, while on a committee of four players from the New York Knickerbocker Base Ball Club, penned a set of rules that established the modern baseball field. The game itself existed as early as the mid 18th century (the time of the colonies for those of you who failed history) and was first mentioned in publication in 1744. And Cartwright's set of rules weren't even the first; a set of instructions for the game of baseball had been printed in 1834, more than a decade before Cartwright wrote his now famous rule book. Cartwright's rule book barely even resembles the modern game. His rules had no mention of innings, fielding a ground ball that had bounced just once was an out, all pitching had to be thrown underhand, and you could get a runner out by plugging (pegging) him with a throw.