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.
Alexander Cartwright created the first rules of baseball on September 23, 1845 for the Knickerbockers ball club. Several of these rules have survived the test of time and are currently a part of modern day baseball rules. 1.