Using localized rules, Americans began playing baseball on informally organized teams early in the 1800s. By the Civil War Era the sport, enormously popular, was being characterized as the "national pastime."
Baseball was based on the English game of rounders. Alexander J. Cartwright of New York is credited for inventing the modern baseball field in 1845, and, along with the members of his New York Knickerbocker Base Ball Club, devising the first rules and regulations for the modern game.
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