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History of baseball in the United States. A 2. 00. 5 vintage base ball game, played by 1. Vintage games are live contests that seek to portray the authenticity of the early game. The term "reenactment" is a common misnomer; games are contested and not meant to recreate a specific historical event.)The history of baseball in the United States can be traced to the 1. The popularity of the sport inspired the semi- pro national baseball clubs in the 1.
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In 1. 90. 3, the British sportswriter Henry Chadwick published an article speculating that baseball derived from a British game called rounders, which Chadwick had played as a boy in England. But baseball executive Albert Spalding disagreed. Baseball, said Spalding, was fundamentally an American sport and began on American soil. To settle the matter, the two men appointed a commission, headed by Abraham Mills, the fourth president of the National League of Professional Baseball Clubs. The commission, which also included six other sports executives, labored for three years, after which it declared that Abner Doubleday invented the national pastime.
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This would have been a surprise to Doubleday. The late Civil War hero "never knew that he had invented baseball". But] 1. 5 years [after his death], he was anointed as the father of the game", writes baseball historian John Thorn. The myth about Doubleday inventing the game of baseball actually came from a Colorado mining engineer.[2][3][4][5] Another early reference reports that base ball was regularly played on Saturdays in 1. New York City in an area that today is Greenwich Village.[6]The first team to play baseball under modern rules was long believed to be the New York Knickerbockers. The club was founded on September 2. New York City, and was strictly amateur until it disbanded.
The club's by- laws committee, which included William R. Wheaton and William H. Tucker, formulated the Knickerbocker Rules, which in large part dealt with organizational matters but which also laid out rules for playing the game.[7] One of the significant rules prohibited soaking or plugging the runner; under older rules, a fielder could put a runner out by hitting the runner with the thrown ball, similarly to the common schoolyard game of kickball.
The Knickerbocker Rules required fielders to tag or force the runner, as is done today, and avoided a lot of the arguments and fistfights that resulted from the earlier practice. A recently discovered newspaper interview with Wheaton indicates that the rules he and Tucker wrote for the Knickerbockers in most respects duplicated the rules he had written for the Gotham Club in 1. Knickerbockers were founded as a breakaway group of former Gothams.
Writing the rules did not help the Knickerbockers in the first known competitive game between two clubs under the new rules, played at Elysian Fields in Hoboken, New Jersey on June 1. The "New York nine" (almost certainly the parent Gotham Club) humbled the Knickerbockers by a score of 2. Nevertheless, the Knickerbocker Rules were rapidly adopted by teams in the New York area and their version of baseball became known as the "New York Game" (as opposed to the "Massachusetts Game", played by clubs in the Boston area).
As late as 1. 85. New York press was still devoting more space to coverage of cricket than to baseball.[8]In 1. Last Of The Summer Wine Series 30. New York area clubs, including the Knickerbockers, formed the National Association of Base Ball Players (NABBP). The NABBP was the first organization to govern the sport and to establish a championship. The 1. 85. 7 convention also established three key features of the game: 9. Knickerbocker Rules, games were played to 2. Aided by the Civil War, membership grew to almost 1.
California. During the Civil War, soldiers from different parts of the United States played baseball together, leading to a more unified national version of the sport. Beginning in 1. 86. NABBP permitted professional play, addressing a growing practice that had not been permitted under its rules to that point.
The first and most prominent professional club of the NABBP era was the Cincinnati Red Stockings in Ohio, which lasted only two years. Businessman Ivers Whitney Adams then courted manager Harry Wright and founded the "Boston Red Stockings" and the Boston Base Ball Club on January 2. In 1. 85. 8, in the Corona neighborhood of Queens (now part of New York City), at the Fashion Race Course, the first games of baseball to charge admission took place. The games, which took place between the all stars of Brooklyn, including players from the Atlantic, Excelsior, Putnam and Eckford clubs, and the All Stars of New York (Manhattan), including players from the New York Knickerbockers, Gothams, Eagles and Empire, are commonly believed to the first all star baseball games.[9][1. Before the Civil War, baseball competed for public interest with cricket and regional variants of baseball, notably town ball played in Philadelphia and the Massachusetts Game played in New England.
In the 1. 86. 0s, aided by the war, "New York" style baseball expanded into a national game, as its first governing body. The National Association of Base Ball Players was formed. The NABBP soon expanded into a true national organization, although most of the strongest clubs remained those based in the northeastern part of the country. In its 1. 2- year history as an amateur league, the Atlantic Club of Brooklyn won seven championships, establishing themselves as the first true dynasty in the sport, although Mutual of New York was widely considered to be one of the best teams of the era as well. By the end of 1. 86. NABBP. By 1. 86. 7, it ballooned to over 4.
San Francisco and Louisiana. One of these clubs, the Chicago White Stockings, won the championship in 1. Today known as the Chicago Cubs, they are the oldest team in American organized sports.[citation needed] Because of this growth, regional and state organizations began to assume a more prominent role in the governance of the sport. Professionalism[edit]The NABBP of America was initially established upon principles of amateurism. However, even early in its history some star players, such as James Creighton of Excelsior, received compensation, either secretly or indirectly. In 1. 86. 6, the NABBP investigated Athletic of Philadelphia for paying three players including Lip Pike, but ultimately took no action against either the club or the players. To address this growing practice, and to restore integrity to the game, at its December 1.
NABBP established a professional category for the 1. Clubs desiring to pay players were now free to declare themselves professional. The Cincinnati Red Stockings were the first to so declare themselves as openly professional, and were easily the most aggressive in recruiting the best available players. Twelve clubs, including most of the strongest clubs in the NABBP, ultimately declared themselves professional for the 1. The first attempt at forming a "major league" produced the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players, which lasted from 1. The now all professional Chicago White Stockings, financed by businessman William Hulbert, became a charter member of the league along with the Red Stockings, who had dissolved and moved to Boston.