Who invented baseball?

Baseball doesn’t have one single inventor, and if someone tells you that a man named Abner Doubleday invented baseball, feel free to tell them that they are full of horsefeathers! People have been hitting balls with sticks and running between bases for hundreds of years. The game we now know as baseball is a mix of very old games called “base” or “rounders.” The basic rules of modern baseball were made official in 1845 by several amateur teams playing in New York.