Baseball is a much older game than you might think. Medieval manuscripts show ball games with bats; while a game called “base – ball” appears in a picture published in London in 1744. Baseball is also mentioned in Jane Austen’s novel Northanger Abbey, which she began writing in 1798. The game of rounders was first described 30 years later, and this or a similar game was known among British settlers in America. Abner Doubleday is sometimes said to have invented baseball in 1839, but Alexander Joy Cartwright Jr drew up the game’s rules in 1845. He founded the first team, the Knickerbocker Baseball Club of New York. Major League baseball started in the USA when the National League was formed in 1876. The rival American League was started in 1901, and in 1903 the World Series, a best – of – nine game event, was held between the winners if each league’s championship.
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