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Baseball

Unlike professional basketball and American football, interest in baseball has not been sweeping the globe . Declining participation at the amateur level and protracted labor problems at the professional level have thrust “America’s Pastime” into an era of uncertainty. Despite this current adversity, baseball will always occupy an important place in American culture. This column starts a three part look at the history of baseball.

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The most important rule in baseball?

Fair ball! A batted baseball is fair if it lands in the field of play or if it touches or passes first or third base within fair territory (even if it then goes over the foul line). The point to make to batters is to run hard to first base whenever they hit the baseball.

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Is learning baseball easy? On a scale of 1–10, it's easily a 10. Baseball is a total skill game, and to develop these particular skills at the highest level one has to virtually play everyday from an early age. There's an old adage that hitting a major league fastball is the hardest thing to do in sports. ... Baseball is 90% skill.

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I think if you live in a black-and-white world, you’re gonna suffer a lot. I used to be like that. But I don’t believe that anymore.

Bradley Cooper