The history of baseball deeply embedded in the folklore of American sports is the story of baseball's invention by a young West Point cadet, Abner Doubleday, in the summer of 1839 at the village of Cooperstown, New York. Mostly a Northern and Midwestern phenomenon, baseball fever ran highest in the New York City area, where in the 1850s, games were being played "on every available green plot within a ten-mile circuit of the city." Spearheading the …showed first 75 words of 555 total…

…showed last 75 words of 555 total…nodes with the team economically contributing to them as well as being social entertainment for the community. For the last 200 years the game of baseball has taken shape to what we know it today. Thousands of kids participate in little league baseball each and every year. Baseball has become apart of the American way of life. It has diffused into our cultural starting from the northeast region and spreading through the Midwest to the south.