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Baseball Is The Greatest Sport

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Baseball has been one of Americas favorite sports ever since it was created. As Babe Ruth once said, “Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.” Through time though other sports started to emerge such as soccer, football, and basketball, but America never had quite the passion towards them that they had with baseball. It is rare to find someone that does not like baseball because of how long the sport has been around. It is reasonable to believe that baseball is the greatest sport out there. Baseball is a one of a kind sport because it has a great history, one can go to college in the four different areas it offers, such as hitting, pitching, defending, base running, and finally one must be mentally tough to play it. Baseball is known for being Americas Pastime, because of how great the history this sport carries behind it and how it was created almost a two-hundred years ago. Abner Doubleday invented baseball, though they claim, in 1839 and was also a Civil War hero. This is not true, and many people believe that he was the inventor. “There really is not a true inventor of the sport, it really came from two English sports, which are rounders and cricket that originated in the eighteen-hundreds. When the American Revolution happened different variations of the English games rounders and cricket were being played all over America and those games made a new one, baseball.” Baseball became even more popular in industrialized places where men looked

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