In 1845, in New York City, the 25 year old Alexander Cartwright took various elements that were used in different forms of early baseball and, adding a few wrinkles of his own, fused them into regulations that stand today. In recent years, historians have discovered that Alexander Cartwright is the true father of baseball, not Abner Doubleday.

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