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Baseball is often identified as the great american sport, yet it didn’t begin in america. How and where did this game originate?.

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A Civil War hero named Abner Doubleday is often credited with developing the game in 1839, but the real history is older—and more complicated. You may have heard that a young man named Abner Doubleday invented the game known as baseball in Cooperstown, New York, during the summer of 1839.
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