Why is baseball called America's pastime?

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Baseball which comes from Rounders that the British invented for small kids, became an extremely popular sport during and just after the American Civil War. It was called "America's Pastime" because during the late 19th and early 20th century it was probably the most widely played sport in the country. Baseball was to that time period as video games and television are to today. Before TV Baseball was what kids did after school and on the weekends and during the summer...etc. It was literally how America passed the time.

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Before the time of television, the internet, DVD's and the rise of american football, basketball, hockey, NASCAR, extreme sports, and the general splintering of American culture, baseball was probably one of the few things that almost every American knew something about and could discuss/share with their neighbors, coworkers, family members and other's that they might sit down next to on a bus etc... Hence, it was the nation's pastime.

I don't think, in this day and age, we have a "national pastime" anymore. Culture is simply too splintered. Americn football may the most popular sport, but being the most popular sport does not make something the "national pastime." They became no life.

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Excellent source here... Baseball comes from British game Rounders, became pastime....

http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blbaseball.htm

because it is the best damn game in the world thats why?

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