The game was similare to Cricket, though transformed in to modern day baseball, I know that the rules varied from our modern day baseball, and that is what I am looking for the original rules.
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Tip-cat is an early game, which was played well into the middle of the Twentieth Century, but has since declined in popularity. It involves striking a piece of wood (known as the 'cat') lying on the ground with a stick, so that it spins vertically into the air, then using a horizontal swing to strike the 'cat' on its downfall. The object is to hit the 'cat' as far as possible over three consecutive strikes, the next strike taking place where the previous strike landed. A swing that fails to connect with the 'cat', or an initial strike that fails to spin the 'cat' into the air high enough to swing at, still counts toward the three strike total.\nWhile each 'cat' is different, typically being fashioned from whatever wood was lying around at the time, a typical one would be a straight piece of stick about four inches (10 centimetres) long, one inch (2.5 centimetres) in diameter, and cut at an angle at each end to resemble a parallelogram in cross-section. When the 'cat' is on the ground, it will be possible to strike one or the other end of the 'cat' with a stick approximately 30 inches (75 centimetres) long, held one-handed, to cause it to fly up in the air so it can be hit with the stick.\n\nTrap-ball (Trap-ball: trap-ball or knur and spell is an old english game....\n[follow hyperlink for more...]) , which developed by the 14th century, is somewhat similar to tip-cat, except that, instead of striking a cat with a stick to get it to fly in the air so it can be hit, a ball is launched from a kind of catapult.
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Main article: History of Baseball \nBaseball is thought to be a direct descendant of cricket, rounders, and town ball (which was much like rounders). The first explicit references to baseball appear to come from England. The earliest known mention of the sport is in a 1744 publication, A Little Pretty Pocket-Book by John Newbery. It contains a wood-cut illustration of boys playing "baseball" (showing a similar set-up to the modern game) and a rhymed description of the sport. Also, a British letter dating from 1748 by Lady Hervey describes how the then Prince of Wales diverted his time playing baseball.\n\nAnother early mention of the game can be found in an 1886 edition of Sporting Life magazine, in a letter from Dr. Adam Ford of Denver, Colorado, formerly of St. Marys, Ontario, Canada, who details a base ball game played in Beachville, Ontario, Canada, on June 4, 1838 -- Militia Muster Day.\n\nAlexander Cartwright had a hand in compiling and publishing an early list of rules in 1845 (the so-called Knickerbocker Rules) to meet the demands of the already popular sport, and today's rules of baseball have evolved from them.\n\nProfessional baseball began in the United States around 1865, and the National League was founded in 1876 as the first true major league, quickly producing famous players such as Honus Wagner. Several other major leagues formed and failed, but the American League, established in 1901 as a major league and originating from the minor Western League (1893), did succeed. While the two leagues were rivals who actively fought for the best players, often disregarding one another's contracts and engaging in bitter legal disputes, a modicum of peace was established in 1903, they began playing a World Series that year.
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Baseball's modern era began in 1900 but was played for several years before that.  There were probably no records kept back then.
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The First game under what would become the standard rules was played in 1849 at Elysian Fields in Brooklyn New York. The first Professional game was played in May 1871 between the Cleveland Forest City's and the Fort Wayne(Indiana) Kekiongas FT.Wayne won 2-0. The National League would be formed in 1876 and the American League in 1901. The First team to play for money was the Cincinnati Red Legs who were formed in 1869.\nAs to who had the first pro hit etc. the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown New York would have those answers.
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try this one \n\nwww.resnicowschroeder.com/news/baseball_2.html
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One side of the baseball has the commissioner of baseball's imprinted signature.  A. Bartlett Giomatti was the comissioner of the National League from 1986- April 1989.  I was probably in that time period
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Few have already given u links to sites with rules. So I'll mainly go through the 'cool' aspects of the game-- how it enhances your cricket watching experience. you can always get rules by doing a search\n\n1) You can get back from office or school & still have an entire action-packed game. It’s just like going for a movie or a football game\n2) Game watching experience in TV--the game is not just a reduced cricket match-but an entirely new commercial package!!\n\n*Sky sports, the official broadcasters of the game, has introduced the idea 'man on mic' .so you can actually hear from a player, when the match is in progress. So commentators can actually talk with a fielder just as he takes a catch & so on. Isn’t that cool-you get to hear all the strategies being worked out, captains justifying sudden change in field placements....\n\n*Helmet cam  -you can actually watch the ball from a batsman's perspective, with a camera attached to the helmet\n\n3)'Bowl Out'-It brings all the excitement of a penalty shoot out into the game of cricket! It comes into play when a match gets tied. Players from both the sides are made to bowl at stumps without batsmen in front!! (Its a rare occurrence though-I Think it just happened twice in history. once in international level & once in semifinals of the English twenty-20 cup-but it sure is great fun)\n\n4) Free hit -In normal cricket batsman can't take advantage of a no-ball as in most cases the call is made after the bowl is played. In twenty-20 the ball after a no-ball is a free hit. Batsmen can get prepared to slog the ball-& the crowd starts to roar just as the bowl is about to be bowled & when he misses it .......the roar ends as a low echo-\n\n5) You can see some good improvisation when batsmen just try to invent new shorts for quick scoring! & some good balling at the dead-mixing of yorkers ,slower balls...& plenty of action. Its entertainment guaranteed.
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Is this a baseball question?
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You might be able to find cool pictures if you look on Baseball Video Game Sites. Just type in the name of the game. it will have images.
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Here ya go:\n\nhttp://www.netstupidity.com/game/Backyard_Baseball/80/
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Not sure which championship you are looking for or which of the several papers in the area would help....so here is a couple links to baseball championships for that era and a full listing of newspapers in the area.\n\nGood Luck
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The origins and evolution of the various bat-and-ball games are murky, and many believe that baseball is primarily an American invention. However, many believe that it originated as an adaptation of the game of rounders, and was also influenced by the rules of cricket. As far back as the 1870s, American newspapers were referring to baseball as "The National Pastime" or "The National Game." An award-winning account of the origins of the game is David Block's Baseball Before We Knew It: A Search for the Roots of the Game (University of Nebraska Press, 2005). The publisher's description of the book notes that "David Block looks into the early history of the game and of the 150-year-old debate about its beginnings. He tackles one stubborn misconception after another, debunking the enduring belief that baseball descended from the English game of rounders and revealing a surprising new explanation for the most notorious myth of all—the Abner Doubleday–Cooperstown story." In short, the debate on the game's origins may never be settled to everyone's satisfaction.
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http://www.baseball-almanac.com/humor4.shtml
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Cricket is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players each. It is a bat-and-ball game played on a roughly elliptical grass field, in the centre of which is a hard, flat strip of ground some 22 yards long, called the pitch.\n\nAt each end of the pitch stand a set of wooden poles called a wicket. A player from one team (the bowler) bowls a ball (similar, but not the same as a baseball) from one wicket towards the other. A player from the opposing team (the batsman) attempts to hit the ball around the field. Runs are scored buy the Batsmen (there is one up the other end of the pitch) running between the wickets before the fielding team can return the ball to the centre. If the batsmen to not return to a line near the wicket by the time the ball has been returned they are out. Runs can also be scored by hitting the ball to the boundary of the field (4 runs) or over the fence (6 runs)\n\nCricket is a global game. It originated in in England, and is popular mainly in the countries of the Commonwealth. In some countries in South Asia, including India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka, cricket is by far the most popular sport. Cricket is also a major sport in England and Wales, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Zimbabwe and the English-speaking countries of the Caribbean, which are known in cricketing parlance as the West Indies. All national teams tour much of the year.\n\nTest match cricket can last for 5 days. One day cricket is normally completed in 8 hours\n\nThe most famous cricket games are between Australia & England. The are a series of 5 test match games and normally occur every 2-3 years.
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Baseball is about intimidation.  The pitcher tries to stare down the hitter and vice versa.  When the batter has been bested, the look back it, pitcher- you may have won this time, but next time you won't.
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Cricket is a much better game than not only Baseball but also than any other games.\nCricket is played and is supported by the people all over the world,but Baseball is mainly played in USA.
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Yeah, it would be refreshing to see the U.S. play The Ivory Coast , or Poland in baseball. You want to watch the "WORLD SERIES", something that means something, wait till the Little Leaguers square off. Then you will see base played like it was meant to be played....between players who play for the fun of it.