... States had been playing variants of the game for years such as rounders, one o" cat, and base. In 1845, some young men in Manhattan organized themselves into the Knickerbocker Baseball Club and wrote down the rules of the game they were playing. These rules eventually became known as the sport of baseball. Twenty years later dozens of baseball clubs in New ... ...

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