History of baseball

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Part of the Baseball series on History of baseball

• Origins of baseball • Early years • First league • Knickerbocker Rules • Massachusetts rules • Alexander Cartwright • Abner Doubleday myth • First pro team • First pro league • Close relations: • Rounders • Town ball • Softball • History of baseball in: • Worldwide • United States • United Kingdom • Canada • Japan • Cuba • Netherlands • Negro league baseball • Women in baseball • Minor league baseball • Comparison between cricket and baseball • Baseball (Ken Burns documentary) • Baseball Hall of Fame • Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) • Baseball year-by-year • MLB season-by-season

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The history of baseball can be broken down into various aspects: by era, by locale, by organizational-type, game evolution, as well as by political and cultural influence. There are a number of articles about the history of baseball:

• Origins of baseball
• History of baseball in the United States
• History of baseball outside the United States
• Baseball in the United Kingdom
• 1845 to 1868 in baseball
• Pre-1841 in sports
• Baseball in the 1900s
• London Tecumsehs (and origins of baseball in Canada)
• Negro League baseball
• Minor league baseball
• Japanese baseball
• Cuban League

Baseball records

• Perfect game
• No Hitter
• List of Major League Baseball Home Run Records
• List of Major League Baseball RBI Records
• List of Major League Baseball Hit Records
• MLB Most Valuable Player Award winners
• Cy Young Award winners
• Gold Glove Award winners
• Triple Crown in Major League Baseball
• MLB Rookie of the Year Award winners