The emergence of baseball
The history of baseball in the form in which it is familiar to most fans of the sport today, begins in the XIX century in the United States. For a long time, Americans believed that the creator of the game, beloved by the entire nation, is the hero of the Civil War, General Abner Doubleday. However, numerous recent historical studies have shown that the creator of modern baseball is actually Alexander Cartwright from New York. He is the one who owns the rule book developed in 1845, and it was he who created the first ever Knickerbocker Baseball Club. Cartwright created an entire game system, according to which each baseball team must consist of nine players. At the same time, there should be four so-called bases on the field, distant…