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The Sport Of Baseball: Yesterday And Today
Back in 1672, when baseball was born, the first game of baseball was played. It seems like a long time ago but baseball is over 300 years old! Of course it wasn’t what baseball it is today, but the basic rules and fundamentals were very similar. Back when baseball was young, there were many names such as “goal ball” and “round ball”. The sport was originally made as a 5 person pastime game but has advanced its past rules to what are now the rules of baseball. Baseball is now a game where flipping through the channels on TV and seeing it on is very common. Millions of people throughout the US watch it every day. Thousands of schools and states, even countries, have baseball teams! Players on a team will get paid huge amounts of money to play

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