On the brink of the twentieth century, baseball was still quite young. Legend has it that the game was invented by a man called Abner Doubleday in Cooperstown, New York. Doubleday was credited with naming baseball and creating its rules, although no proof has ever existed to back the story. In reality, the game that would become America’s pastime evolved over time from similar games like cricket and rounders, which had their origins in the United Kingdom. In 1845, Alexander Joy Cartwright drafted the first published rules of the game, and in 1867, a player by the name of Candy Cummings threw baseball’s very first curveball
