Expert: Tom Schott - 2/28/2006

Question
Hi Tom, my name is Matt Davis and I am sorry I you already got this email but I had to and couple points. I was wondering who invented baseball, what year it was invented and are the rules the same now as they were back then. I will need a response by Thursday and this is for a english project. Thank You for your consideration.


Answer
Matt,

 Thanks for your question. If you will go to this web site: http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blbaseball.htm you will find all the answers you need about the origins of the game. There have been many rule changes since the mid-19th century when the game originated. You will find a great summary of these here: http://www.baseball-almanac.com/rulechng.shtml

Good luck on your project.

Tom