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Posted By: <b>Steve</b><p>The Ruskies, first in space was tough enough to swallow. Now this?<br /><br /><a href="http://www.sptimes.ru/index.php?action_id=2&story_id=11394" target="_new" rel="nofollow">http://www.sptimes.ru/index.php?action_id=2&story_id=11394</a><br /><br /><br />Base ball didn't derive from that English game as I once thought, it had originated from Lapta?<br /><br />

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Posted By: <b>davidcycleback</b><p>I thought Happy Chandler decided baseball was invented by Omar Bradley.

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Posted By: <b>barrysloate</b><p>Poorly researched article. Alexander Cartwright did not invent baseball in 1845. The game was around before he was born.

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Posted By: <b>davidcycleback</b><p>My neighbors just returned from St. Petersburg and like it it (I saw the pictures).<br /><br />Amongst the three major US Sports, basketball was invented (by a Canadian in the US), both football and baseball slowly developed over time from other sports. It's impossible to pinpoint when the latter two sports first appeared. For example, even if you call 1870 football football, it doesn't resemble our current game. <br /><br />Interesting tidbit about the invention and naming of basketball. The inventor, James Naismith, asked a Springfield College janitor to get some boxes for his newly conceived indoor ball game. The janitor couldn't find any boxes, and brought Naismith something else -- baskets.<br /><br />And, in the earliest version of basketball, there were no holes in the bottom of the baskets. The ball was retrieved via ladder after a score.

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Posted By: <b>Butch &amp; Co.</b><p>Barry, what, you have a problem with a "14th-century" game that uses tennis balls? Spalding became the league's official supplier in 1563! <br />

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Posted By: <b>barrysloate</b><p>That would be Sir Geoffrey Spalding, Albert's great-great-great-grandfather.