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.
Baseball is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of nine players each who take turns batting and fielding. It evolved from older bat-and-ball games, an early form of baseball was being played in England by the mid-18th century.