Can You Name the MLB Team If We Give You Three of Their Franchise Legends?

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The origins of baseball aren't exactly known. Some say it stemmed from the game of Rounders that was played in England and Wales during Tudor times. Some say it's a variation of cricket, which dates all the way back to the 16th century, and others claim that it was based on the game of Stoolball, which was played in the British Isles during the 15th century. If you really want to find the first game that used a ball and a stick in similar fashion, you can go all the way back to the 14th century Romanian game of Oina. The origins of the game are such a mystery that in 2011, the MLB Commissioner appointed a Baseball Origins Committee to discover how the game started.

Nevertheless, by 1845 Americans in New York formed a club called the Knickerbockers and played a similar game. Once the Civil War started, the game traveled South and West and thousands of soldiers were playing it in between battles regularly. By 1869, the first professional baseball team - the Cincinnati Red Stockings - was formed, and over the next decade 15 teams would be created to create the National League. The oldest team in the National League still around today is the Boston Red Stockings, who later became the Boston Braves, then the Milwaukee Braves, and are today called the Atlanta Braves. Twenty years later, in 1901, the American League was formed and by 1903 both leagues joined forced to create Major League Baseball. It's America's game and it has created some of America's greatest sports legends. How well do you know them?