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The question of the origins of baseball has been the subject of debate and controversy for more than a century. Baseball and the other modern bat, ball, and running games – stoolball, cricket and rounders – were developed from folk games in early Britain, Ireland, and Continental Europe (such as France and Germany).
This is the first known reference to "base-ball" or "baseball" in print, [2] though it actually meant the game rounders, an ancestor of modern baseball. Of baseball's English origin: "The game of Rounders has been played in England since Tudor Times, with the earliest reference being in 1744 in 'A Little Pretty Pocketbook' where it is called ...
Adults playing kickball. Kickball (also known as soccer baseball in most of Canada and football rounders in the United Kingdom) is a team sport and league game, similar to baseball. Like baseball, it is a safe haven game in which one team tries to score by having its players return a ball from home base to the field and then circle the bases.
Rounders is a bat-and-ball base-running game played on a diamond. Played in England since Tudor times, it is referenced in 1744 in the children's book A Little Pretty Pocket-Book where it was called baseball. [48] The game is popular among British and Irish school children. [49] [50] In 2015 it was played by seven million children in the UK. [51]
Baseball in the United Kingdom Country United Kingdom Governing body British Baseball Federation National team(s) Men's national team Women's national team First played 1862 National competitions British Baseball Federation National League, AAA, AA and A divisions 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 Doubleday myth is the claim that 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 whether baseball originated in the United States or was a variation of the British game rounders, the Mills Commission was formed in 1905 to seek out evidence.
A lot of original research and unsubstantiated speculation in the Rounders section. Whilst rounders might not have been Tudor in origin, it certain dated from 1744. This article seems fixated on the name, but the 1744 publication described the game is much closer to modern rounders than it was to modern baseball.
Gaelic games (Irish: Cluichí Gaelacha) are a set of sports played worldwide, though they are particularly popular in Ireland, where they originated. They include Gaelic football, hurling, Gaelic handball and rounders. Football and hurling, the most popular of the sports, are both organised by the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA).