Baseball - From the Beginning
No one man invented baseball. Baseball evolved from a couple of different games. It has elements of Cricket and a Russian game called Lapta (a ball would be thrown to the batter who would attempt to hit it with a short stick).
The pircture is of the Cincinnati Red Stockings. The Red Stockings were the first openely professional baseball team. they began play in 1869.
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Baseball in Cincinnati
In 1876 a new Cincinnati Red Stocking team was one of the charter members of the National League, but was expelled from the league in 1880 for violating rules.
In 1882 a rival league to the National League, the American Association began play with the Cincinnati Red Stockings as one of its team.
They left that league to join the National League in 1890 dropping the Stockings from their name becoming the Cincinnati Reds.
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