Baseball Ball Cufflinks

Stainless Steel Baseball Ball Cufflinks, Enameled, Lacquered and with an Anti-allergic Bath. Size 19mm

There is evidence that games with a stick and a ball have been played since the first dawn of civilization. Ancient cultures, in Persia, Egypt and Greece, played games with a stick and a ball for fun and as part of certain ceremonies. Games of this type spread throughout Europe during the Middle Ages and became popular in various forms. Europeans introduced similar games to their American colonies around the 16th century.

There are, despite the popular version of the origin of baseball created by Doubleday, numerous references to the terms baseball and bat-and-ball in documents from the early years of the 18th century. The origin of baseball should actually be defined as the evolution of baseball, because based on what historians of the game have been finding, it is a derivation of the game “stool ball” that dates back to the Middle Ages and, in turn, The “stool ball” comes from ritual games played in the ancient world.

The first reference to the term “base ball” occurs in 1744, just under 100 years before Abner Doubleday supposedly invented it in Cooperstown, New York in 1839.