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The earliest known mention of baseball in the United States was a 1791 Pittsfield, Massachusetts, ordinance banning the playing of the game within of the town meeting house.
In 1903, the British sportswriter Henry Chadwick published an article speculating that baseball derived from a British game called rounders, which Chadwick had played as a boy in England.
To settle the matter, the two men appointed a commission, headed by Abraham Mills, the fourth president of the National League of Professional Baseball Clubs.
The commission, which also included six other sports executives, labored for three years, after which it declared that Abner Doubleday invented the national pastime.
15 years his death, he was anointed as the father of the game ," writes baseball historian John Thorn.
The myth about Doubleday inventing the game of baseball actually came from a Colorado mining engineer.
Another early reference reports that " base ball " was regularly played on Saturdays in 1823 on the outskirts of New York City in an area that today is Greenwich Village.
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