A particularly successful form of multi-stakeholder cooperative is the Italian social cooperative, of which some 11,000 exist.  1 Type A social cooperatives bring together providers and beneficiaries of a social service as members.
History of US Quidditch. Quidditch was founded in 2005 at Middlebury College by then-freshman Xander Manshel. Looking for a variation on their normal Sunday activities, Manshel and his friends laid the foundation for a game that has grown in leaps and bounds to become a widely respected, physically intense sport.
Little is known about the origins of baseball. The question has been the subject of considerable debate and controversy for more than 100 years. One theory is that the game originated from the medieval Romanian game Oina. Baseball (and softball), as well as the other modern bat, ball and running games, cricket and rounders, developed from earlier folk games.