... formalize a list of rules by which all team could play. Much of that original code is still in place today. Although popular legend says that the game was invented by Abner Doubleday, baseball's true father was Cartwright. The early 1860s, however were a time of great turmoil in the United States. In those years of the Civil War, the number of baseball ... ...

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