The Knickerbocker Baseball: The Invention Of Baseball

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Abner Doubleday invented the game known as baseball in Cooperstown, New York, during the summer of 1839. At least that is the myth that was told doubleday was actually a civil war hero not the inventor of baseball. Baseball was actually a mixture of cricket and a game called rounders, brought here by early New England colonists. It started out as just a game played in school yards and on college campuses, then in the mid-19 century it became popular in industrialized cities were young men sought work. In 1845 a group of New York city men founded the Knickerbocker baseball club. Due to the history and past experimentation the experiment of improvement of the baseball glove, illustrates the concepts of physics. The history

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