A ball, a bat, and four bases on a field. The elements of the game that became baseball have been around for hundreds of years, also know as an English game called rounders.[#1 Appositive] Americans had been playing another ball game with bases called “town ball” since the Revolutionary War. By the 1840s, sportsmen in several Northeastern cities were gathering regularly to play several variations of what they called baseball. In 1845, Alexander Cartwright and Daniel Adams, were both leaders of the Knickerbocker Base Ball Club, and developed the first set of rules for the game. Though the rules changed rapidly over the next few years and continued to evolve into the 1900s, they were close to what baseball is today, to mark the ‘birth’ of baseball. From humble beginnings, the game has grown from a sport played by men on weekends to a sport played by women, and children of all ages in more than 100 countries.…