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Posted By: prewarsports

Baseball did not "start", it evolved. It would be like watching a game of Football in 1876 and watching a game today, they are not even close to the same game but both are a version of Football. Baseball has been played in more or less the same way with little rule differentiation since the 1830's when clubs started to adopt the New York game as opposed to the Massachussetts (I always misspell that word) game. What we call baseball today is an evolved version of the New York game. Go buy Harold Seymours first volume of "Baseball" and read it and you will know everything you could want to know about the birth of baseball. You see it all the time at used book stores in paperback for around $7.