427,400 views
16 votes
16 votes
Baseball is often identified as the great american sport, yet it didn’t begin in america. How and where did this game originate?.

User Landons
by
2.8k points

1 Answer

28 votes
28 votes
A Civil War hero named Abner Doubleday is often credited with developing the game in 1839, but the real history is older—and more complicated. You may have heard that a young man named Abner Doubleday invented the game known as baseball in Cooperstown, New York, during the summer of 1839.
User Igaster
by
3.1k points