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This is exactly why you don't let content play with the keyboard. Baseball was invented in NEW YORK in 1845 by Alexander Cartwright. It was based on a game called Rounders invented by the British.
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And this is why you don't let Americans play with... Anything? So one dude sees a whole whack of Englishmen playing a game.. He goes home, invents his own rules, makes a field, and VOILA he's the MASTERMIND behind the game?! C'mon. Really?
A special Commission of 1907 concluded that baseball had been "invented" by the Civil War hero Abner Doubleday (1819-1893), in Cooperstown, New York, in 1839. But it was actually Alexander Joy Cartwright (1820-1892) of New York who established the modern baseball field (1845). In Cartwright's rules of play, however, plugging was allowed; a ball fielded on one bounce was an out; pitching was underhand; and the game was won by the first team to score 21 "aces" (runs), in however many innings
<----- Sounds a lot like the game of Baseball we play today? lol.. hold on, 2 lol's are necessary for this one.. One to laugh at you, and one to laugh at your absolute sureness.
http://www.craigmarlatt.com/canada/s.../baseball.html
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Big surprise, Cooperstown doesn't recognize this obviously LEGITIMATE letter. Why? Because the USA is the centre of the universe, and anybody who claims different is ignored, of course! Be proud of your ignorance.
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Although Ford's original letter is in the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, officials there have never formally recognized the validity of his claim for Beachville.
Research of county records and tombstones in the area indicate most of the players would have been boys and men 15 to 24 at the time of the game, again making his recollections believable, say the researchers.
It's Ford's letter, which also includes a diagram of a five-sided playing field, that sets down for the first time the specifics of a game. There were distinguishing features to Ford's game: there was territory to show where fair and foul balls were, or "fair hit" and "no hit" as he called them. And the number of men on each side had to be equal before a game could be played, usually between seven and 12 players per team.
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Sounds a lot more like baseball to me?
I can't believe you started your post off good too, like you like Canadians.. You called us FOREIGNERS! Dude.. How was your country founded? On immigration? How many years ago? C'mon. Nobody owns anything in this world brother, we just use it while we're here, then we die. That includes the land you stand on now.
And as for Canadians coming to the USA.. Why are you guys complaining?! We have 1/10th your population. You have 10x our population. Whose gonna get more of who?