The history of baseball is mostly unclear, with its sources associated with stoolball as one of its original names, as similar games with different names and rules were being played in different countries parallelly. The written records date back, arguably, as far as 1672 with the mention of similar games in Ireland, Britain, and continental Europe. It is said that the English colonials introduced the game to the American continent as a pastime. Nevertheless, in the mid-19th century, men’s ball clubs in and around New York City altered the game remarkably, and this significantly modified sport came to be known as baseball that we know today. Do you know of any similar games that existed in your country? What were they called?