Baseball Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
American-originated sport in which teams compete to score runs by hitting a thrown ball and advancing around bases
About Baseball
Baseball's origins are murky at best, and there is a lot of mythology behind it. But the game does bear similarities tocricket, which, like baseball, appears to have evolved from earlier bat-and-ball games popular in England and Western Europe. For decades, the invention of the game was attributed toAbner Doubleday, with the first game said to have occurred inCooperstown, New York (which remains to this day the home of the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame), but historians now agree that neither had anything do with the game's origins. Modern baseball's actual roots seem to be in several similar bat-and-ball games that were played throughout the United States in the 19th century, with a version from the New York City area becoming popularized and spread across the country during and after
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