People often disagree about the origin of baseball. For around 90 years, people have believe that it was Abner Doubleday who invented baseball however this is considered to be a myth. Baseball is a sport which came into existence quite slowly as it had a slow development. It changed with time and evolved at a slow pace which is why it is known as America's national pastime. Some people believe that baseball was initially played in England and it is from there that the American's got it. It was believed that in England, milkmaids and farmers would play with a softball and toss it underhand and then hit it with their closed fists and this is how the game evolved. Others are of the opinion that it was through cricket that baseball evolved. An investigation was also conducted during 1905-1907 in order to understand where exactly baseball came about from. The investigation carried out revealed an old man who claimed to be a childhood friend of Abner Doubleday who stated that it was Abner who had invented the game back in 1839 in Cooperstown in New York (Stewart). This however could not be possible as at the time the game was invented, he was in the United States Military Academy in West Point. The investigation also revealed a diary belonging to him which did not state anything about baseball. Since the late 1700's, baseball has been investigated by researchers. Apart from baseball, games such as town ball, bat and ball, stool ball and one old cat have also bee tracked. All the games mentioned had different rules to follow however the one thing which they had in common was that the ball was thrown to a person who was holding a bat. The ball would be hit using the bat after which the player would run to the base. This however sounds quite familiar. This game was known as rounders which was commonly played by girls back in the day (Margolies). When this game was brought into America in the 18th century by immigrants from England, it got changed