America´s Pastime

The sport of Baseball is widely considered to be ´America´s Pastime´ and it has been for a very long time. There are not many things that are more American than baseball. The origins of baseball have been up for debate for a long long time. Baseball and other similar games to Baseball were developed from folk games back in early Britain, Continental Europe. Baseball is a great game that has been around as long as any other sport that there is. Early folk games that baseball derived from include games like Cricket, and Rounders. The basics of baseball consist of trying to get a hit or get walked to get on base. Once on base, the goal is for the other players to advance the runner from 1st base to home, and score a run. It is perhaps the simplest concept of all the sport. You git a ball with a bat and run around all the bases before the other team can get to the ball and have a chance at getting you out. This sport has been around for centuries and is very popular, some may even argue that it is the most popular sport of all time in America.

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Basketball Origins

The invention of Basketball, personally my second favorite sport, came way back in 1891, in Springfield Massachusetts. It was invented by a PE instructor named James Naismith. It was created to be a safer alternative to football. Basketball grew very quickly and became extremely popular, especially in America, and then all over the world. The American National Basketball Association, better known as the NBA was established in 1946 and has grown to become a multi-billion dollar industry by the end of the century. The game started out using a fruit basket, and a soccer-style ball. Dr. Naismith created 13 rules originally. The first ever public basketball game was held March 11, 1892. Basketball is a globally famous game and is played on an international level. Some people would argue that the second most popular game in America, after football, is baseball, but over the last few decades that has been put to the test. Both on the college and NBA level, basketball is a huge pass time for Americans and is a great sport. Screenshot 2018-10-18 at 2.48.29 PM.png ¨BHS Boys Basketball” by Chip Griffin is shared under an Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0)

How It All Started

Ancient Greece introduced the first ever formal sporting event, with the first ever Olympic games in 776 BC. Records show that people have been playing sports for over 3,000 years. There are hundreds of sports out there, some of the most popular being, Football, Baseball, Basketball, and the most popular sport in the world, Soccer. People also continue to come up with new sports and games to this day. There is something about a competitive atmosphere that has given humans satisfaction since almost the beginning of mankind.

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