In 1871, a farmer and Civil War veteran from Gorham, Maine, named Horace Wilson, was recruited to teach in Japan as part of ...

According to one line of research, the origins of baseball – the American national pastime – evolved from a Polish ball-and-bat game called ‘palant’. Dating back to the Middle Ages and once highly ...

Be sure to stay tuned tomorrow night for a special edition of the CBS6 news at 7 - the origins of baseball. It's a closer look at America’s pastime and where it all began, examining the history ...

They find it in a game of questionable origins. Inning One, Our Game, looks at the origins of baseball in the 1840s and takes the story up to 1900. Burns refutes the myth that Abner Doubleday invented ...

11, 1873, The Arizona Miner newspaper reported one of the first baseball games played in the Arizona Territory, a Christmas day game at Camp Grant: “In the forenoon, an exciting game of base ...