• following are the baseball events of the years 1845 to 1868 throughout the world. 1837 – The Gotham Club of New York is formed. 1845 Summer – The Knickerbocker...
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    Baseball was introduced to Japan in 1872 and is Japan's most popular participatory and spectator sport. The first professional competitions emerged in...
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  • date, at least, to the Mills Commission finding. The earliest known published rules of baseball in the United States were written in 1845 for a New York...
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  • became involved in playing town ball (an older game similar to baseball) with the Gotham Club of New York at Murray Hill in Manhattan. In 1845, several members...
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    have a long history in American baseball and many women's teams have existed over the years. Baseball was played at women's colleges in New York and New...
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    played games in 1845, the contest long recognized as the first officially recorded baseball game in U.S. history took place on June 19, 1846, in Hoboken,...
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    compared to baseball. Baseball portal Baseball awards Baseball clothing and equipment List of baseball films List of organized baseball leagues Women in baseball...
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    formed in 1969, relocated to Washington, D.C. in 2005) and Minor League Baseball's Vancouver Canadians, an affiliate of the Blue Jays competing in the High-A...
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    Baseball is a growing, minor sport in Italy The sport is governed by the Italian Baseball Softball Federation (Italian: Federazione Italiana Baseball...
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    Rounders (category Sports originating in England)
    name baseball was superseded by the name rounders in England, while other modifications of the game played elsewhere retained the name baseball. The game...
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  • Baseball is Venezuela's leading sport. Baseball in Venezuela originates with the early twentieth century cultural influence of United States oil companies...
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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...
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    Baseball is believed to have been introduced to Korea in 1905 by American missionaries during the Korean Empire, after which it gradually attained prominence...
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    Alexander Cartwright (category Baseball developers)
    Ball Club in the 1840s. Although he was an inductee of the Baseball Hall of Fame and he was sometimes referred to as a "father of baseball", the importance...
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  • Knickerbocker Rules (category History of baseball in the United States)
    Rules are a set of baseball rules formalized by William R. Wheaton and William H. Tucker of the Knickerbocker Base Ball Club in 1845. They have previously...
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    Women's baseball is played in several countries. The strongest and most organized women's baseball leagues are in the United States, Australia, Japan...
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    Baseball was introduced in the Philippines during the American colonial period. Baseball was a national pastime in the country. The sport has become a...
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  • Cincinnati Red Stockings (category Baseball in Cincinnati)
    were baseball's first all-professional team, with ten salaried players. The Cincinnati Base Ball Club formed in 1866 and fielded competitive teams in the...
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  • was founded in 1938, after the inaugural Baseball World Cup held in London. About 5 years later, the name of the federation was changed to Federacion Internacional...
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    colloquially known in Finnish as pesis and also referred to as Finnish baseball) is a fast-moving bat-and-ball sport that is often referred to as the national...
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  • International Baseball, Greenwood Press, 2004 Buchanan, Zach. "'What if we brought baseball to Egypt?' Inside the grassroots effort to build the game in an unexpected...
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    Stoolball (category Sport in England)
    it resembles in some respects), baseball, softball, and rounders. The sport has been called "cricket in the air". There is evidence to suggest that it...
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    Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL) was a professional women's baseball league founded by Philip K. Wrigley, which existed from 1943 to 1954. The AAGPBL...
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  • Baseball is played in local clubs, schools and at the university level in India. Baseball was played in Manipur as early as World War II when the US Army...
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  • regarding baseball in Spain is the Royal Spanish Baseball and Softball Federation (Real Federación Española de Béisbol y Sófbol). Baseball began relatively...
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  • Baseball is a growing minor sport in the United Kingdom, with an estimated 22,500 people playing in 2020. The sport is governed by the British Baseball...
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  • were United States professional baseball leagues comprising teams of African Americans. The term may be used broadly to include professional black teams...
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    Doubleday myth (category History of baseball)
    the sport of baseball was invented in 1839 by the future American Civil War general Abner Doubleday in Cooperstown, New York. In response to a dispute over...
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  • The sport of baseball is widely played in Palau, having been introduced by the Japanese during their occupation of the island nation. The highest level...
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    Baseball is the most popular sport in the Dominican Republic. It is a major sport in the country, and was introduced in the late-19th century in the city...
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