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MLB Front Office Manager Giveaway: Question #6 (Double Points)

Posted on February 5, 2009 at 09:42 AM.

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We are now in the home stretch. At least one and possibly two more questions to go (depending on how this one plays out). Only one person can get points for this one.

Right now anyone can get the question right and be in the game, but if you don't get in now, you have no chance at winning when the final question is posted this afternoon.

Standings
goallout13 - 3 points
kwrichardson, blaise - 2 point
asb37, HechticSooner, bryan_05 - 1 point

My motto has always been you need to know where you came from in order to know where you are going...or something like that. With that said, today's first question is just a straight up trivia question and should be rather easy if you think it through. I want the simple answer to the simple question:

"Who invented baseball?"

This is for double points, so you had better jump in if you want to have a chance at winning the game this afternoon!

Comments

# 1 RaychelSnr @ Feb 5

One note, goallout13 will own all tiebreakers if he answers this one correctly...so if he answers this one first and correctly, the contest is over!

# 2 goallout13 @ Feb 5

Alexander Cartwright is officially credited for inventing baseball.

# 3 Blaise @ Feb 5

I dont know if there is any one right answer, but based on my findings, I'll go with Alexander Cartwright

# 4 goallout13 @ Feb 5

Wow, did we just post at exactly the same time?

# 5 Blaise @ Feb 5

My basis is that he came up with the "Knickerbocker Rules", which what most of baseball's rules evolved from

# 6 Blaise @ Feb 5

i guess we did, funny though, after i posted it didnt show your posts for about 3 mins

# 7 goallout13 @ Feb 5

Yeah, there is one other big name, which I wont mention, who is often dispelled as just being a myth.

# 8 Blaise @ Feb 5

Well since we answered at the same time i wonder how this will play out...?

# 9 RaychelSnr @ Feb 5

Well you were both wrong, as Cartwright did come up with the rules..but he didn't necessarily invent the game, he just standardized it. So it will play out with someone else answering the question and getting the points

# 10 ASB37 @ Feb 5

Abner Doubleday is the other big name, I believe it says as much in Cooperstown, and the myth is the Mills Commission doing research for then National League president Abraham Mills and concluding that Doubleday was indeed the inventor of baseball. Historians now believe the Mills Commission to be a myth, and claim that Doubleday never took credit for invention baseball.

So for this contest's sake I guess I'll go Doubleday.

# 11 RaychelSnr @ Feb 5

Definitely not Doubleday either, as you said...there is a lot of disagreement about Doubleday even playing the game, much less inventing it.

# 12 JibJab 24 @ Feb 5

Guess I'll take a shot at an answer. I'll answer that no one person invented baseball. It evolved from the english game of rounders and cricket along with the american game of town ball.

# 13 RaychelSnr @ Feb 5

JibJab 24 answers my very tricky question!

Baseball was stadardized (to an extent) by Cartwright, but it was still a long way away from the game we see today. In reality, no one person invented baseball and it was developed over time by a variety of people into the game we have today. So yes, I just posted a trick question in a way!

I will post the final question this afternoon. I'm expecting great things for the finale!

# 14 RaychelSnr @ Feb 5

If you aren't on this list, you have no chance of winning the game.

Standings
goallout13 - 3 points
kwrichardson, blaise, JibJab24 - 2 point
asb37, HechticSooner, bryan_05 - 1 point

# 15 JibJab 24 @ Feb 5

Sweet, thank you Ken Burns!!!

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