Baseball is America's favorite past time and if you are a teen who doesn't enjoy baseball then you have some problems. The earliest reference to baseball came in 1744, but the first real thing happened in 1838 when Dr. Adam Ford had a contemporary description of the game. The first semiprofessional baseball club was the Cincinnati Red Stockings who assembled in 1869. Baseball has come a very long way since then and there are now 30 teams in the major leagues. Some kids, including me, would be lost without baseball, and I couldn't imagine how much spare time I would have if baseball was never invented.