Baseball was first named and described in 1774 in A Little Pretty Pocket Book, a very popular English book which was reprinted in America in 1762.
In 1907 the American baseball authorities advanced a story that the game was invented by the Civil War general Abner Doubleday in Cooperstown, New York, in 1839. Abner Doubleday never visited Cooperstown and never mentioned baseball in his diaries.
According to Stephen Fry;
Baseball was first named and described in 1774 in A Little Pretty Pocket Book, a very popular English book which was reprinted in America in 1762.
In 1907 the American baseball authorities advanced a story that the game was invented by the Civil War general Abner Doubleday in Cooperstown, New York, in 1839. Abner Doubleday never visited Cooperstown and never mentioned baseball in his diaries.