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BASEBALL
 
THE HISTORY OF BASEBALL
It is a fact that baseball was developed in North America, the exact origin of the sport in unknown. Some people think it came of many games that have been played for hundreds of years. One claim is that Abner Doubleday, a union officer during the Civil War (1861-1865), was the one who invented baseball in Cooperstown, New York, in 1839. But of course it is just a claim! The ball is a whole different story. Players used to smear it with dirt, licorice, tobacco juice, they even spiked the ball. At least four minor league players were killed by pitches between 1910-1920.
 
THE DIMENSIONS OF A BASEBALL DIMOAD