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The History of Baseball
The exact origins of baseball are unknown, but most historians agree that it was based (0) on the English game of "rounders". to a popular legend, the game was invented by Abner Doubleday, but baseball's true father was Alexander Cartwright.
In 1845, Cartwright made a comprehensive list of rules many of are still used today. The first recorded baseball game place a year later, when Cartwright's Knickerbocker Base Ball Club lost New York Base Ball Club. In 1858, the first National Association of Base Ball Players and the first baseball league were established. All the players were amateurs. In its first year, the league supported by charging a small admission fee to its fans.
The number of clubs dropped significantly during the years of the Civil War, but the Union soldiers carried the interest in baseball to every part of the country. At the end of the war, there were more people playing baseball than before. The league grew and so the expenses of playing. Soon the best players became professional. The amateur teams began to disappear because there was way they could compete with the professional teams.
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