When did baseball get noticed?

Answer 1

Baseball was invented by Abner Doubleday in 1839 and played by civil war troops in the 1860's.

The story of Abner Doubleday has been completely discredited by historians. It's a myth that Doubleday invented baseball. Historians have largely disproved the story of Abner and baseball. There are published accounts of the game being played in Ontario Canada prior to this date. Sporting Life magazine published an account of a game in Beachville Ontario, Canada in 1838, a full year before Doubleday was supposed to have invented the game.

Variations of the game have been played for centuries in other countries.

But the man credited with being the "father of baseball" was Alexander Cartwright. He helped create formalized rules of the game and helped promote it.