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Well don't know the whole history but in 1740/1750's the word baseball was mentioned in a book or newspaper thing and then 20-40 years later its first mentioned in America.
After checking the dates I found this on wikipedia...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseball#Origins_of_baseball
The earliest known mention of the sport is in a 1744 British publication, A Little Pretty Pocket-Book, by John Newbery. It contains a wood-cut illustration of boys playing "base-ball," showing a set-up roughly similar to the modern game, and a rhymed description of the sport. The earliest known American reference to the game was published in a 1791 Pittsfield, Massachusetts, statute that prohibited the playing of baseball within 80 yards of the town's new meeting house. The English novelist Jane Austen made a reference to children playing "base-ball" on a village green in her book Northanger Abbey, which was written between 1798 and 1803 (though not published until 1818).