Multiple choice general knowledge sports

Who invented baseball?

  1. Alexander Cartwright Jr.

  2. Alex P. Hartford

  3. A bunch of New York City kids

  4. Alex P. Sutherland
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Explanation

Alexander Cartwright Jr. is credited with formalizing modern baseball rules in the 1840s, including the diamond-shaped field, foul lines, and three-strike system. While baseball evolved from earlier games, Cartwright's Knickerbocker Rules established the structure of the modern sport. The Abner Doubleday myth was fabricated later.

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