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Time trip - baseball history, * Baseball didn't just come out of left field. The game evolved from an old English game called rounders. Like today's baseball, rounders was played with a bat and ball on a field with bases. But to get a player out in rounders, a fielder had to hit the runner with the ball.

Baseball's 11 greatest individual streaks in major league history, IN BASEBALL, STREAKS OF SUCCESS BY HITTERS, PITCHERS AND FIELDERS come and go.

Remarkable: one-season performances: here are some extraordinary accomplishments achieved by batters and pitchers that are among the greatest in baseball history

A History of Baseball with Greg Proops - Audiobook Review

Baseball's reliquary: the oddly possible hybrid of shrine and university - At The Museum - history of baseball and the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum

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Floyd Patterson Loses Battle With Prostate Cancer - The Boxing world has lost one of its most adored and appealing heavyweights.

Boxing PayPerViews A RipOff - Bernard Hopkins just took a portion of the light heavyweight belt from Antonio Tarver in a one-sided beating in Atlantic City.

Sports Great Moments In Sports History - With all the different sports available to us and with all the many years of sports memories behind us, it would be impossible to pick out a list of the greatest moments in sports history.

NBA Why Is Kobe Bryant So Hated - Even though Kobe Bryant is the best basketball player in the NBA he is one of the most hated basketball players in the NBA.

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With the debut of the Washington Nationals, a professional baseball team is representing Washington, D.C., for the first time since Sept. 30, 1971. more	Washington Post staff writer Barry Svrluga talks baseball in the nation's capital -- every Wednesday. more
Barry Svrluga	Baseball, a Celebration.
Barry Svrluga: Welcome back, Nationals fans. This bunch never ceases to befuddle me. When we last spoke, they were en route to losing five in a row and seven of eight, had a slew of injuries, couldn't score many runs, and a summer as an also-ran seemed to be upon us. more	Baseball As America: Seeing Ourselves Through Our National Game, developed by the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum (National Geographic Society, 2002 more

Warts and all, it's going to be some postseason

There are no perfect teams, which distinguishes this season from last. Last October, everyone had a pretty good idea which team was going to win it all. And the Yankees did, in a World Series sweep of the Padres. Ho hum.