tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20142791.post1691274492082609342..comments2024-03-11T07:41:19.149-04:00Comments on The Perfect Substitute: As American as...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20142791.post-38167119961613217302008-09-12T13:04:00.000-04:002008-09-12T13:04:00.000-04:00I could have sworn that baseball was invented at t...I could have sworn that baseball was invented at the Menlo School, on a dusty (i.e., beautifully manicured) field behind Jerry Rice's house, with a group of privileged, white suburbanites led by a scrawny, scrappy, slap-hitting southpaw named Matty and a garbage collector who thought it was a waste of time to study...but that's just me.Jeremyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12155687964158192494noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20142791.post-43617061904556289242008-09-12T09:45:00.000-04:002008-09-12T09:45:00.000-04:00Oh, as far as your question goes, there simply is ...Oh, as far as your question goes, there simply is no "first game". The game evolved. It's like asking who was the "first" human being.<BR/><BR/>But the first recorded game between two well organized teams is generally regarded to have been the match between the Knickerbockers (the team that first codified the rules a year earlier) and a group called the "New York Nine" on July 19, 1846.<BR/><BR/>But they were playing a game that you and I would recognize as a close cousin to base ball for many generations before this.<BR/><BR/>Versions of this are still being played today as "vintage base ball". http://www.vbba.orgdoclawsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13134209853620151481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20142791.post-84838023339554238772008-09-12T09:38:00.000-04:002008-09-12T09:38:00.000-04:00For my money the best source to consult is David B...For my money the best source to consult is David Block's book, Baseball Before We Knew It.<BR/><BR/>http://www.baseballbeforeweknewit.com/doclawsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13134209853620151481noreply@blogger.com