Stan Boleslawski wrote:
> On Jan 25, 5:35 pm, Matt Giwer wrote:
>> Straha wrote:
>>> With a POD after 1815 your challenge if you choose to accept it is to
>>> make Cricket be the big american sport instead of baseball, with
>>> baseball being a new england regional sport.
>> Would not the first thing to ask be what were the rules of Cricket in 1815?
>> And were there related base and ball games in England? There does not appear
>> to have been a standard game in the US until decades later.
> IIRC both baseball and cricket developed out of Rounders,
> which had been played in the US during colonial times into
> the early 19th century. Baseball developed along different
> lines than cricket did, but they both came from the same
> game.
If that is the case then expecting to find both games the same is like
expecting to find parallel evolution in the Star Trek universe. It is
something we would not expect to find.
>> If all we have are different versions developing along local lines there is
>> no way to make them the same. It would be like how do you make tennis and
>> badminton or croquet and golf the same game.
>> Trivia, Abner Doubleday, hero of Ft. Sumter, was read into the imaginary
>> history of baseball because of his military fame.
> And to create more tourism for Cooperstown.
Rather was that not related to MacGregor sporting goods? It is not like
tourism was popular back then. It had something to do with selling the product
-- I'll look it up if wrong.
> The first recorded baseball game ever was played in Hoboken, NJ ;
> what happens if the Doubleday story is never created or never
> catches on and Hoboken becomes known as baseball's birthplace?
> Given Hudson County's status as the de facto "sixth borough" NYC
> probably takes the credit.
Given all the local rules and how they had to be unified one has to ask what
set of rules constituted baseball at that time.
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