If ever there was going to be an industry that would have nailed down the precise first of its kind, it would be baseball cards. After all, the hobby is practically built upon carefully constructed ...

Baseball originated in the decades before the Civil War, when the game was played in several East Coast cities. The claim that Abner Doubleday devised the rules of baseball is a myth, with no ...

"Faraway the American people introduced baseball -- how interesting it is." So wrote Japanese poet Masaoka Shiki, who was ...

In the United States, it was long believed that American Civil War hero Abner Doubleday, a major general of the Union Army, invented baseball in his youth. In 1939, the supposed 100th anniversary ...