The English games cricket and rounders are the forerunners of the American game baseball, which became popular in the nineteenth century. According to the New York Morning News, in an article from 1845, members of the New York Knickerbockers Club played the first baseball game. Taking place at Elysian Fields in Hoboken, New Jersey. Creating one of baseball’s first teams, and writing “20 Original Rules of Baseball,” Alexander Cartwright is often called The Father of Baseball by scholars and historians of the game. His new rules, which became known as Knickerbocker Rules, changed baseball in a number of ways, such as giving each batter three strikes and each inning three outs.
