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Baseball was created by Abner Doubleday in the year 1856, in Cooper Town New York. -
Soccer was first played in the US, October 11, 1866, in Waukesha, Wisconsin, under the 1863 London Football Association -
Walter Chauncey Camp brought football to New Jersey in 1869. -
In 1872, rugby clubs were established in the San Francisco Bay Area, composed mainly of British expatriates. -
Tennis was first played in the United States in 1874. William C Winfield invented lawn tennis. -
The modern sport of ice hockey was developed in Canada, most notably in Montreal, where the first indoor game was played on March 3, 1875 by James Creighton. -
Water polo was introduced to the USA in 1888 by William Wilson. The game featured the old rugby style of play which resembled American football in the water. -
Basketball was created in Springfield Massachusetts by Joe Naismith in 1891. -
Volleyball was brought to the US in Massachusetts in 1895 by American William G. -
Congressman Joel Pritchard, Barney McCallum, and Bill Bell invented the game of pickleball one summer afternoon in 1965 on Bainbridge Island, WA