| Baseball started in England!baseball started in England | | | | base ball in Ontario, Canada in June1838. |
| Well not exactly. No one really knows where baseball | | | | However, in 1845 the 'Knickerbocker Rules', named |
| started, but settlers in America brought with them the | | | | after the breeches worn at the time, were devised to |
| English games of cricket, rounders and the similar | | | | regularise the playing of baseball. These differed |
| townball, which gradually evolved into the game we | | | | substantially from the rules of both cricket and |
| know today. | | | | rounders (townball rules depended upon the town in |
| The first known reference to "baseball" as a game | | | | which it was played), although some similarities remain |
| was in 1791 in Massachusetts where a town bye-law | | | | to this day both in the terminology used and the rules |
| banned it from the proximity of the town meeting | | | | themselves. |
| house. There is also a detailed account of a game of | | | | |