All about Baseball: A journey from past to present
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The evolution of baseball from older bat-and-ball games is difficult to trace with precision. READ MORE
Origins:
The exact origins of the modern game of baseball are somewhat difficult to track. Ball games have been played throughout the centuries; in America, where baseball originated, the game generally traces its lineage back to some combination of cricket and rounders, two games brought over by European settlers. There is, of course, the popular myth that Abner Doubleday, a Union soldier from the Civil War “invented” or “created” the modern game of baseball, but there is no actual proof of this, and Doubleday himself never claimed to have anything to do with the game.
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