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Delphos Herald (Newspaper) - April 5, 2013, Delphos, OhioWho invented baseball this photograph taken by Brooklyn n photographer Charles h. Williamson depicts the Knickerbocker base Ball club and the Excelsior base Ball club in one of the earliest known team photos and perhaps the Host image on a baseball Field. It was taken on september 3, 1859, at Elysian Fields Hoboken new Jersey. Some of the players Are As follows knickerbockers James Ahtye Davis second from Lef Tcharles Schuyler de Bost third from left and Harry Wright sixth from the left. The Umpire is i r. Jones Middle in overcoat and hat and the Excelsior Are Henry i. Polhemus Jones a left John Holder sixth from right Edwin Russell fifth from right and Thomas Reynolds far right. By Paul Niemann major league baseball celebrated the 10 the anniversary of the world series in 2003. In that first Ever world series the Boston pilgrims red sox Defeated the Pittsburgh pirates 5 games to 3. The series was originally a Best of nine format. The 2003 season also marked the 100th anniversary of the event that started the great debate Over who a a invented baseball j in this Story we try to find out who invented baseball. There Are two competing theories j and they involve two men who were born within a year of each other and died within a year of each other. In fact both men had died by the time the great debate began. It was either Bank clerk Alexander Cartwright or civil War Veteran Abner Doubleday whose great great grand Nephew is the co owner of the new York mets. The debate began when baseball writer / historian Henry Chadwick who wrote baseball a first Rule Book in 1858, declared in Albert Spalding a baseball guide of 1903 that baseball had been derived from an English game called a1 Spalding was a former major league Pitcher and manager for the Chicago cubs Alexande originally known As the Chicago White stockings. Since he did t want to accept that the game he loved could have come from the British he commissioned a panel in 1904 to determine the games origins. The panel which included two . Senators and was chaired by a former National league president who probably never heard of Alexander Cartwright also did no to want to accept the possibility that baseball might have British roots. Their Choice As the inventor of baseball was a civil War general named Abner Doubleday. Doubleday by the Way has the distinction of being the Soldier who fired the first shot in defense for the Union during the civil War at fort Sumter. The Only evidence that the panel had in support of Abner Doubleday being the inventor of baseball was a letter it received from an elderly Man who claimed that he was a boyhood Friend of Doubleday a. In his letter he claimed that he saw Doubleday invent a form of the British based rounders game mentioned earlier called a town balls in Cooperstown in 1839. Cooperstown of course is the Home of the baseball Hall of Fame. Doubleday allegedly did this when he organized two teams in a i game which included bases and a Ball. Years later a baseball with the cover nearly completely torn off was found in the attic of the Home of Doubleday sold Friend the baseball became known As the a Doubleday baseball and it sits in the Hall of Fame. Most of the other research for this panel was done by an employee of the publishing company which Spalding owned. There was plenty of evidence to suggest that Doubleday did not invent baseball though. For example Doubleday kept diaries and was a skilled Public speaker but there was never any mention of baseball in his writings or his speeches. You would think that a person who invents a new sport would mention it somewhere along the Way. Alexander Cartwright on the other hand established Many of baseball a Basic rules. He decided that the distance Between bases is to be 90 feet that the game is to be played by nine person teams for nine innings and that each team gets three outs per inning. In addition to adding the position of shortstop he eliminated the Rule that allowed the defense to get a runner out by throwing the Ball at him he also i r Cartwright Doubleday baseball video the Field into fair and foul territory. Many believe that september of 1845 is when Cartwright invented the game at age 25, and his Knickerbocker baseball club played their first game the following year in Hoboken new Jersey. Where can you find most of this information about Cartwright a contributions to the rules on his Hall of Fame plaque w hich also lists him As the a father of Modem Cartwright a plaque does no to claim that he invented the game but he is in the Hall of Fame while Doubleday is not even though the a Doubleday baseball is. So who did invent baseball Alexander Cartwright or Abner Doubleday you have to decide for yourself. Even though the evidence favors Cartwright Over Doubleday no one knows for sure because there was t enough proof at the time More than 150 years ago. More on baseball and baseball tri a on Page 10.april 2013 a Good times 3

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