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When did baseball begin? We don't mean the sport, but the word itself. Many people currently view an article from The Brooklyn Eagle in 1845 as providing the earliest evidence of the word used to describe the American version of baseball.
- Rounders
a game of English origin that is played with ball and bat...
- Rounders
According to many sources, the earliest appearance of the word "baseball" dates from 1700, when Anglican bishop Thomas Wilson expressed his disapproval of "Morris-dancing, cudgel-playing, baseball and cricket" occurring on Sundays.
In the early 1800s "baseball" and a game first mentioned in 1828 as the aforementioned "rounders" may have been the same or very similar. During the 1830s and 1840s organized amateur club baseball grew up in eastern United States cities; however, the first official baseball game with a documented score card took place not in the US, but in ...
Oct 31, 2024 · Baseball - Origins, Rules, Leagues: The term base-ball can be dated to 1744, in John Newbery’s children’s book A Little Pretty Pocket-Book. The book has a brief poem and an illustration depicting a game called base-ball.
Jan 18, 2006 · Using the archives of the New York Times, we can easily discern the evolution of how the new word “baseball” developed during the last half of the 19th century. From its first references in 1855 through 1869, the game was spelled as two words, “base ball.”
Mar 18, 2020 · The word baseball was first recorded in the 1740s, although the first citation is somewhat disputed. What may be the oldest known use of the word is in in John Newbery’s A Little Pretty Pocket-Book, which is the first children’s book for entertainment, as opposed to education, ever published.
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The history of baseball in the United States dates to the 19th century, when boys and amateur enthusiasts played a baseball -like game by their own informal rules using homemade equipment. The popularity of the sport grew and amateur men's ball clubs were formed in the 1830–50s.
