....... . Most written records state that the first baseball game in history was played in New Jersey, USA, in 1846, between the New York Nine and the Knickerbockers Baseball Club. In 1907 a commission established to investigate the origins of baseball declared that it had been invented in 1839 by an American general named Abner Doubleday in upstate New York. However, evidence suggests that baseball originated much earlier, in Europe.