Sport Trivia

Baseball on both the professional and amateur levels is popular in North America, Central America, parts of South America, parts of the Caribbean and East Asia. The modern version of the game developed in North America beginning in the eighteenth century.

The consensus is that it evolved a game called rounders, brought to North America by British and Irish immigrants. By the late nineteenth century, baseball was regarded as the national sport of the United States. The game is sometimes referred to as hardball to differentiate it from similar sports such as softball.