Evolution Of Baseball Research Paper

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The game involved over many decades, if not centuries, and it’s roots are in fact just a mess of a ball and a bat brought over here by immigrants. We know for sure that baseball is somewhat related to English game. Also during this time period the nation was taking shape, there are many stories of young kids playing town ball. Other games like this one was being played on this side of the US, in northern america in the later 1700’s.
Baseball originated before the civil war ( 1861-1865) also known as “rounders” A game that was played on sandlots. In 1871 the first pro baseball league was born. By the beginning of the 20th century, most of the larger cities had a professional baseball team. They were divided into 2 leagues, National, and american,

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