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Abner Doubleday and Baseball in America

Nothing seems to be more American than baseball. Its tradition is clean and clear.

People think that Abner Doubleday  __________________________       baseball

in 1839 at Cooperstown, New York. They are mistaken, however, because

baseball  _______________________________       by Abner Doubleday.

Moreover, there is no evidence to show that Doubleday

ever  ________________________________       a baseball game in his life.

Unfortunately, most fans today still believe this myth of the game's origin.

Fortunately, the sport's beginnings are much more interesting and varied than

those that most people believe. In fact, of all popular American sports, only

basketball         _______________________ by an individual. A man called

James Naismith      ________________________   to create a co-educational,

recreational sport and so he    ______________________      basketball. The

truth is, baseball      _________________________   into America from England

in a simple form. Many people     ______________________    cricket in the 19th

century America and later, they picked up the game of baseball for recreation,

because it did not have many rules. Until about 1860, cricket matches  
_____________________    large crowds, but baseball contests     

_________________________ by only a few spectators, mostly women and

children. In time, however, the combination of the two sports produced the

beginning of baseball, as we know it today

KEY
1. invented
2. was not invented
3. saw
4. was developed
5. was assigned
6. produced
7. was imported
8. played
9. attracted
10. were watched