I did. > Early baseball or town-ball had many, many variants, as would be expected of an informal boys' game, and most differed in several particulars from the

I did. > Early baseball or town-ball had many, many variants, as would be expected of an informal boys' game, and most differed in several particulars from the game which developed in New York in the 1840s. All wikipedia pages point to baseball being invented in new england, USA. Yes, other games that involve hitting balls with sticks were invented elsewhere, including great britian, and the influence can be traced to those, but the game we play today was invented in the USA.