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How did baseball originate?

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Baseball originated from a British game called Rounders, which is somewhat like Cricket. Although this is what is said to be the main origination, people all over the world and throughout history have been batting balls and catching them, be it rocks and twigs or coconuts and a tree branch, etc.

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