Alexander Cartwright is noticed as the man that established the rules and field for baseball. He invented the baseball field throughout his life and received much attention from it...negatively and positively. Teams would play with local rules playing on informal teams before Cartwright established these rules and field. By the 1860's, the sport, unrivaled in popularity, was being described as America's "National Pastime." Alexander Cartwright, born in New York in 1920, invented the baseball field in 1845. He was a part of the Knickerbockers Baseball Club; the club in New York that helped him achieves his goals of devising the first rules and regulations for the modern game of baseball.

He based the game of Baseball on an old English game called "Rounders." Rounders was a 16th Century bat and ball game that dates back to the Dawn of Time, meaning there is no...