Town of Killen Killen is a town in Lauderdale County, Alabama, United States. It is part of the Florence - Muscle Shoals Metropolitan Statistical Area known as The Shoals.
The story that military officer Abner Doubleday invented baseball in Cooperstown, New York, in 1839 is a particularly pernicious bit of American myth-making. Many baseball historians admit the story is patently false since Doubleday was at West Point when he would've been playing that legendary first game.
Prior to Cartwright's rules of 1845, the first recorded game of modern baseball was played in Beachville, Ontario. A firsthand account and the rules of the game were recorded by Dr. Adam E. Ford in an 1886 issue of 'The Sporting Life' magazine in Denver, Colorado.ames believed to have been similar to cricket had developed by the 13th century. There was a game called creag, and another game, Handyn and Handoute (Hands In and Hands Out), which was made illegal in 1477 by King Edward IV, who considered the game childish, and a distraction from compulsory archery practice.