How baseball Began

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New documents indicate that baseball began in 1857 and not 1860 as previously thought. The 1857 documents titled "Rules of Base Ball" provide the essentials of the modern game. The documents explain that the distance between the bases is 90 feet, the game lasts nine innings, and nine players are on the field. The documents were written by Daniel Lucius Adams who was known as Doc Adams. This makes Adams the founding father of baseball and not Alexander Cartwright who is given credit for the game. Adams was president of the New York Knickerbockers Base Ball Club, which held a convention of 14 baseball teams in the New York area, and the purpose of the conventions was to codify the rules of baseball. The Baseball Hall of Fame does not plan to replace Cartwright as the father of baseball. Source: