who invented dodgeball and when?
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Origin of Game: It originated 600 years ago in Africa,then was brought to Europe,and then was brought to the U.S.A.
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I always use wikipedia as one of my first stops when researching a new topic.  Here is wikipedia's site on Baseball:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseball\n\nThey have a few diagrams, but the exact date that baseball was invented will be hard to come by, here is wikipedia's description;\n\nAlthough the origins and evolution of the various bat-and-ball games are murky, baseball is primarily an American invention. However, many believe that it originated as an adaptation of the game of rounders, and was also influenced by the rules of cricket."\n\nAnother site you might find usefull is the 'about.com' site:\n\nhttp://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blbaseball.htm\n\nIt seems to be the general consensus that Baseball was derived from the game 'rounders', and it's exact invention date is not known.  Abner Doubleday was mistakenly given credit for inventing the sport, but it is likely that he is not the true inventor.  This site has a pretty good description:\n\nhttp://www.historybuff.com/library/refearlybase.html\n\nThis is what this site says:\n\n"Tom Heitz of the National Baseball Library in Cooperstown, New York, said in a phone interview recently that the Hall of Fame recognizes September, 1845 as the time when the rules of the game we know as baseball were first set down. They were adopted by the New York Knickerbockers..."\n\nThese site may be a good starting point for getting the information you need.
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Basketball is unique in that it was invented by one person, rather than evolving from a different sport. In early December 1891, Dr. James Naismith, a Canadian-born American physician and minister on the faculty of a college for YMCA professionals (today, Springfield College) in Springfield, Massachusetts, sought a vigorous indoor game to keep young men occupied during the long New England winters. Legend has it that, after rejecting other ideas as either too rough or poorly suited to walled-in gymnasiums, he wrote the basic rules, and nailed a peach basket onto the gym wall. The first official game was played in the YMCA gymnasium on January 20, 1892. At that time, it was played with nine players on a court just half the size of a present-day NBA court. "Basket ball", the name suggested by one of his students, was popular from the beginning, and with its early adherents being dispatched to YMCAs throughout the United States, the game was soon played all over the country.\n\nInterestingly, while the YMCA was responsible for initially developing and spreading the game, within a decade, it discouraged the new sport, as rough play and rowdy crowds began to detract from the YMCA's primary mission. Other amateur sports clubs, colleges, and professional clubs quickly filled the void. In the years before World War I, the Amateur Athletic Union and the Intercollegiate Athletic Association (forerunner of the NCAA) vied for control over the rules of the game.\n\nBasketball was originally played with a soccer ball. The first balls made specially for basketball were brown, and it was only in the late 1950s that Tony Hinkle, searching for a ball that would be more visible to players and spectators alike, introduced the orange ball that is now in common use.
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In 1895, William G. Morgan, of Holyoke, Mass., decided to blend elements of basketball, baseball, tennis, and handball to create a game for his classes of businessmen which would demand less physical contact than basketball. He created the game of "mintonette". Morgan borrowed the net from tennis, and raised it 6 feet 6 inches above the floor, just above the average man's head.\nDuring a demonstration game, someone remarked to Morgan that the players seemed to be volleying the ball back and forth over the net, and perhaps "volleyball" would be a better name for the sport.\nToday there  are 800 million players worldwide who play Volleyball at least once a week.
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Dr. James Naismith, Inventor of Basketball\nKU Basketball Program Founder\n \nDr. James Naismith is known world-wide as the inventor of basketball. He was born in 1861 in Ramsay township, near Almonte, Ontario, Canada. The concept of basketball was born from Naismith's school days in the area where he played a simple child's game known as duck-on-a-rock outside his one-room schoolhouse. The game involved attempting to knock a "duck" off the top of a large rock by tossing another rock at it. Naismith went on to attend McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. \n\nAfter serving as McGill's Athletic Director, James Naismith moved on to the YMCA Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA in 1891, where the sport of basketball was born. In Springfield, Naismith was faced with the problem of finding a sport that was suitable for play inside during the Massachusetts winter for the students at the School for Christian Workers. Naismith wanted to create a game of skill for the students instead of one that relied solely on strength. He needed a game that could be played indoors in a relatively small space. The first game was played with a soccer ball and two peach baskets used as goals.\n\nJames Naismith devised a set of thirteen rules of basketball: \n\nThe ball may be thrown in any direction with one or both hands. \nThe ball may be batted in any direction with one or both hands, but never with the fist. \nA player cannot run with the ball. The player must throw it from the spot on which he catches it, allowance to be made for a man running at good speed. \nThe ball must be held in or between the hands. The arms or body must not be used for holding it. \nNo shouldering, holding, pushing, striking or tripping in any way of an opponent. The first infringement of this rule by any person shall count as a foul; the second shall disqualify him until the next goal is made or, if there was evident intent to injure the person, for the whole of the game. No substitution shall be allowed. \nA foul is striking at the ball with the fist, violations of Rules 3 and 4 and such as described in Rule 5. \nIf either side make three consecutive fouls it shall count as a goal for the opponents (consecutive means without the opponents in the meantime making a foul). \nGoal shall be made when the ball is thrown or batted from the ground into the basket and stays there, providing those defending the goal do not touch or disturb the goal. If the ball rests on the edge and the opponents move the basket, it shall count as a goal. \nWhen the ball goes out of bounds, it shall be thrown into the field and played by the first person touching it. In case of dispute the umpire shall throw it straight into the field. The thrower-in is allowed five seconds. If he holds it longer, it shall go to the opponent. If any side persists in delaying the game, the umpire shall call a foul on them. \nThe umpire shall be judge of the men and shall note the fouls and notify the referee when three consecutive fouls have been made. He shall have the power to disqualify men according to Rule 5. \nThe referee shall be the judge of the ball and decide when it is in play in bounds, to which side it belongs, and shall keep the time. He shall decide when a goal has been made and keep account of the goals with any other duties that are usually performed by a referee. \nThe time shall be two 15-minute halves with five minutes' rest between. \nThe side making the most goals in that time shall be declared the winners. \nIn addition to the creation of the basketball, James Naismith graduated as a medical doctor, primarily interested in sports physiology and what we would today call sports science and as Presbyterian minister, with a keen interest in philosophy and clean living. Naismith watched his sport, basketball, introduced in many nations by the YMCA movement as early as 1893. Basketball was introduced at the Berlin Olympics in 1936. Today basketball h
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James Naismith was the Canadian physical education instructor who invented basketball in 1891. James Naismith  was born in Almonte, Ontario and educated at McGill University and Presbyterian Cllege in Montreal. He was the physical education teacher at McGill University (1887 to 1890) and at Springfield College in Springfield, Massachusetts (1890 to 1895). At Springfield College (which was then the Y.M.C.A. training school), James Naismith, under the direction of American phys-ed specialist Luther Halsey Gulick, invented the indoor sport of basketball. \n\nThe first formal rules were devised in 1892. Initially, players dribbled a soccer ball up and down a court of unspecified dimensions. Points were earned by landing the ball in a peach basket. Iron hoops and a hammock-style basket were introduced in 1893. Another decade passed, however, before the innovation of open-ended nets put an end to the practice of manually retrieving the ball from the basket each time a goal was scored. \n\nIn 1959, James Naismith was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame (called the Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame.)
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The first match was invented in 1805 by K. Chancel, assistant to Professor L. J. Thénard of Paris. The head of the match consisted of a mixture of potassium chlorate, sulfur, sugar, and rubber. They were ignited by dipping the tip of the match in a small asbestos bottle filled with sulfuric acid. This kind of match was quite expensive and its usage was dangerous, so Chancel's matches never gained much popularity.\n\nThe first friction match was invented in 1827 by English chemist John Walker.
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As much as anyone can be credited with inventing baseball, Alexander Cartwright is that person.  His 1845 Knickerbocker rules are the earliest ones that can be directly recognizable as baseball.\n\nThe National League is generally recognized as the first true major league; it began play in 1876.  It was a reformation of the National Association, which had begun play in 1871 but was not as cohesive of an organization.  The term "Major League" can be traced to the 1883 "National Agreement" that established the NL and the American Association as "Major Leagues" and all other leagues as "minor leagues."  Besides the National League, other leagues that are recognized as having been Major Leagues are:\n\nAmerican Association: 1882-1891 (several teams joined the NL after the AA's demise)\nUnion Association: 1884\nPlayers League: 1890\nAmerican League: 1901-Present\nFederal League: 1914-1915
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Arthur Giblin was the inventor of the first flushable toilet. It is believed that he later sold the rights to market his invention to Thomas Crapper, a fellow plumber and boss.
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James Nesmith.  The guy that invented basketball invented all basketball.
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James Naismith invented the game
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I think dodge ball is ilegal for most adolecent organizations.  Just because they saw Dodgeball doesn't mean that its a good idea to play the dangerous sport.  But god would I like to sign up for one of those, so I can nail some asshole in the face!
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James Naismith invented basketball in 1891.
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If you can dodge a WRENCH.....\nYou can dodge a BALL!\n-Patches O'Houlihan
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From the Guinness Book of World Records:\nGlen Gorbous (Canada) threw a baseball 445 ft. 10 inches on August 1, 1957.\n\n\n[edit: added another source]
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Dodgeball\nIf you can dodge a wrench you can dodge a ball.\n\nI'm White....W H I T................E
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In early December 1891, Luther Gulick, chairman of the physical education department at the School for Christian Workers (now Springfield College) in Springfield, Massachusetts, instructed physical education teacher James Naismith to invent a new game to entertain the school's athletes during the winter season. With an ordinary soccer ball, Naismith assembled his class of 18 young men, appointed captains of two nine-player teams, and introduced them to the game of Basket Ball (then two words). Naismith, who had outlined 13 original rules, dispatched the school janitor to find two boxes to be fastened to the balcony railing at opposite sides of the gymnasium, where they would serve as goals. The school janitor, however, only found two half-bushel peach baskets, and the game was played with these.\n\narchive articles \nf1938: Basketball \nf1939: Basketball \nf1940: Basketball \nf1941: Basketball \nf1942: Basketball \n74 items \n\nA  Early Developments \n\nMeadowlark Lemon The Harlem Globetrotters originated in Chicago, Illinois, in 1927. Members of the Globetrotters, professional athletes that specialize in tricky moves and hilarious slapstick, have entertained basketball fans around the world since the team’s inception. Meadowlark Lemon, shown here, was a popular team leader.LDE/Archive Photos  \n \nThe soccer ball and the peach basket soon gave way to specialized equipment. For example, in the early days the peach baskets were closed at the bottom, meaning that someone had to climb on a ladder to retrieve the ball after a made basket. The peach basket was later replaced by a metal rim with a net hanging below, and in 1906 people began opening the netting to let the ball fall through. The first basketballs were made from panels of leather stitched together with a rubber bladder inside. A cloth lining was added to the leather for support and uniformity. The molded basketball, introduced in about 1942, was a significant advancement for the sport. The molded ball, a factory-made ball that had a constant size and shape, offered better reaction and durability, making play more consistent and the development of individual skills easier. In Naismith's original 13 rules, the ball could be batted in any direction with one or both hands, but it could not be dribbled because players could not move with the ball. Beginning in 1910 a player could dribble the ball, but could not shoot after dribbling. It was not until 1916, following heated debate, that players were allowed to shoot after dribbling.\n\ndynamic timeline \nBasketball Invented \n \n \n\nThroughout basketball's history, no part of the game has been more monitored than the act of fouling an opponent. In basketball's early days, a player's second foul would mean removal from the game until the next field goal was made. If a team committed three consecutive fouls, the opposition would be awarded a field goal. Beginning in 1894 players were given a free throw when fouled. Beginning in 1908 players who committed five fouls were disqualified from the game. Based on the severity of the foul, the rules were soon amended so that players were awarded either two shots or one shot plus a bonus shot, which was attempted only if the first shot was made. The rules also determined that an offensive player could commit a foul by playing too aggressively.\n\n It was not until 1916, following heated debate, that players were allowed to shoot after dribbling. \n\nIn 1892 Lithuanian-born physical education teacher Senda Berenson Abbott introduced basketball to women, at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. Because it was believed that Naismith’s version of the game could be too physically demanding for women, Berenson Abbott made the following changes to the game: The court was divided into three equal sections, with players required to stay in an assigned area; players were prohibited from snatching or batting the ball from the hands of another player; and players we