Which country was baseball first played?
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Abner Doubleday is granted with the invention of baseball. He actually copied a game that was being played in Canada by the Indians there. He tweeked it a bit and called it baseball. I would say Canada was where baseball truly originated it.
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"hit the baseball"...real hard!! a baseball is often called an apple."chuck that apple in here".  one of the great things about baseball is its jargon, and colorfuull use of the engish language... not to mention its colorfull history and crazzy assortment of characters...an interesting subject even for those who dont know the game... see ken burns book or film.
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Dominican Republic\n\nBaseball is most popular in the Americas and East Asia (although in South America only in the extreme northern portion). In Japan, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Panama, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Canada, South Korea, and Taiwan, it is one of the most popular sports. The United States is the birthplace of baseball, and there it has long been regarded as more than just a "major sport" - it has been considered, for decades, the national pastime and Major League Baseball has been given a unique monopoly status by the United States Congress. Although four most popular sports in North America are ball games — baseball, basketball, soccer and football.
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Baseball is the American pastime because it is woven into the history of the United States.  Legends say it started back in the Civil War with Abner Doubleday.  Baseball saw the United States through wars, the Great Depression, the Civil Rights Movement, and so much more.\n\nThis quote from Field of Dreams sums it up better than I can put it into words.  It's one of my favorite quotes of all time.\n\n"The one constant through all the years has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It's been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game, is a part of our past. It reminds us of all that once was good, and that could be again."
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England and Scotland being co-founders of the beautiful game.\nThe World's First Football Club - Sheffield Football Club - was founded in 1857 by Colonel Nathaniel Cresswick and Major William Priest, two British Army officers.
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The Boston Pilgrims defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1903 for the first world series.
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Six errors by the Pittsburgh Pirates.\n\nCommitted in the first inning of a 13-7 New York Giants victory on August 20th, 1903.
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Baseball.  It's more interesting to watch.  And baseball is pretty much worldwide too.
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Modern football started in the UK.\nFirst time humans used a game based n shooting a ball with their feet was around 3000 b.c. in ancient egypt.Later the babylonians played a similar game, then much later a game closer to basket ball called "ring ball" appeared in the villages of the Maya civilization in central america. Almost all civlizations have used a spherical object in one sport or the other.
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The First game under what would become the standard rules was played in 1849 at Elysian Fields in Brooklyn New York. The first Professional game was played in May 1871 between the Cleveland Forest City's and the Fort Wayne(Indiana) Kekiongas FT.Wayne won 2-0. The National League would be formed in 1876 and the American League in 1901. The First team to play for money was the Cincinnati Red Legs who were formed in 1869.\nAs to who had the first pro hit etc. the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown New York would have those answers.
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It was  due to the fact that besides USA, and a few other countries, baseball is not played in any other countries. Furthermore, baseball was constantley one of the poorest attended sports when it came to the Olympics, Equestraian got more of an audiance than baseball.
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Football, as a genre, has been around for hundreds of years.  The current version of the game played in America was first played in the 1870's
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Main article: History of baseball \nThe origins and evolution of the various bat-and-ball games are murky, and many believe that baseball is primarily an American invention. However, because of the similarity in its most basic form, of its rules and game-play, it is far more likely that it originated as an adaptation of the game of English rounders, vigaro and town ball. It was also influenced by the rules of cricket.\n\n \n1886 baseball demonstration at Conner Prairie living history museum.The first explicit references to baseball appear to come from England. The earliest known mention of the sport is in a 1744 publication, A Little Pretty Pocket-Book by John Newbery. It contains a wood-cut illustration of boys playing "baseball" (showing a similar set-up to the modern game) and a rhymed description of the sport. Also, a British letter dating from 1748 by Lady Hervey describes how the then Prince of Wales diverted his time playing baseball. The English author Jane Austen specifically mentions the game of baseball in her novel, Northanger Abbey, being played by the protagonist, Catherine Moreland. The book was first written in 1798 and revised until publication in 1803.\n\nAlexander Cartwright had a hand in compiling and publishing an early list of rules in 1845 (the so-called Knickerbocker Rules) to meet the demands of the already popular sport, and today's rules of baseball have evolved from them.\n\nAs far back as the 1870s, American newspapers were referring to baseball as "The National Pastime" or "The National Game." An award-winning account of the origins of the game is David Block's Baseball Before We Knew It: A Search for the Roots of the Game (University of Nebraska Press, 2005). The publisher's description of the book notes that "David Block looks into the early history of the game and of the 150-year-old debate about its beginnings. He tackles one stubborn misconception after another, debunking the enduring belief that baseball descended from the English game of rounders and revealing a surprising new explanation for the most notorious myth of all—the Abner Doubleday–Cooperstown story." In short, the debate on the game's origins may never be settled to everyone's satisfaction.\n\nAnother early mention of the game can be found in an 1886 edition of Sporting Life magazine, in a letter from Dr. Matthew Harris of Boston, Massachusetts, formerly of St. Marys, Ontario, Canada, who details a base ball game played in Beachville, Ontario, Canada, on June 4, 1838 -- Militia Muster Day.\n\nProfessional baseball began in the United States around 1865, and the National League was founded in 1876 as the first true major league, quickly producing famous players such as Honus Wagner. Several other major leagues formed and failed, but the American League, established in 1901 as a major league and originating from the minor Western League (1893), did succeed. While the two leagues were rivals who actively fought for the best players, often disregarding one another's contracts and engaging in bitter legal disputes, a modicum of peace was established in 1903, and they began playing a World Series that year.\n\nCompared to modern times, games in the early part of the 20th century were lower scoring and pitchers were more successful. The "inside game", whose nature was to "scratch for runs", was played rather more violently and aggressively than it is today. Ty Cobb said of his era especially, "Baseball is something like a war!" This period, which has since become known as the "dead-ball era", ended in the 1920s with several rule changes that gave advantages to hitters and the rise of the legendary baseball player Babe Ruth, who showed the world what power hitting could produce and thus changed the nature of the game.\n\nDuring the first half of the 20th century, a "gentlemen's agreement" in the form of the baseball
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Baseball's modern era began in 1900 but was played for several years before that.  There were probably no records kept back then.
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Is this a serious question? do you follow football at all? in order to qualify they have to compete against; Brazil (the worlds number one), Argentina, Chile, Ecuador, Colombia, Uruguay and Paraguay, all great footballing nations where football is the number one sport. In Venezuela, baseball is more popular than football.
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Baseball--the greatest tradition in the world.  It very well may be the perfect game.
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The earliest accounts of organized baseball come from the New York Knickerbockers, formed by Alexander Cartwright September 23, 1845.  Cartwright wrote the first rules for the game, which essentially still stand today.  Here's more on the history of baseball in America from Wikipedia: