Baseball
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Originally created by an unknown person this game consists of nine players on each team. Unless you have a designated hitter. This abomination also known as the DH detracts from the purity of the game. Except for Big Papi. He's a beast.
History
The origins of the game are unknown, but "base-ball" or "base ball" was being played, under that name, during the Civil War:
- Captain Kimberly was an experienced and skillful player and base ball player and took the lead in inaugurating a series of games of base ball.<ref>Nash, Eugene Arus (1910) A History of the Forty-fourth Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry, in the Civil War, 1861-1865, p. 166