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.
Abner Doubleday invented baseball sometime in the late 1800s. I  learned this when I went to Cooperstown, New York - where it is  said the game was invented - and where the Baseball Hall of Fame  is. There is also a field there in honor of Abner Doubleday.  Baseball comes directly from rounders that the British invented  for small children - pitch, bat and run around 4 bases (yes, 4). It  is still very popular today among kids up to 10 years old. Girls  even have baseball leagues.