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Daily reminder that 'America's national pastime'
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Daily reminder that 'America's national pastime' is an English invention.
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Ah yes that vague poem proves it
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we invented clapping?
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Jane Austen even mentioned it in Northanger Abbey, written in 1797

>"It was not very wonderful that Catherine, who had nothing heroic about her, should prefer cricket, baseball, riding on horseback, and running about the country at the age of fourteen, to books."
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>>67631180
>basebore
>national pastime
I didn't know the English invented Football, that's pretty interesting.
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>>67631308
They did invent football you retard
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>>67631308
Delete this
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you invented getting shot?

#roasted #ebin
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>>67631321
I'm not talking about your gay ass soccer, I mean real Football.
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>>67631308
Guaranteedreplies.cfg
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>According to many sources, the earliest appearance of the word "baseball" dates from 1700, when Anglican bishop Thomas Wilson expressed his disapproval of "Morris-dancing, cudgel-playing, baseball and cricket" occurring on Sundays.
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>>67631349
>he likes basebore
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>>67631356

kinda wish i could morris-dance on sundays t.b.h.
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>>67631348
face it lad, the brits invented literally everything. your gridiron thing is a descendant of rugby.
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>>67631367
>not cudgel-playing
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>>67631390

im allergic to cudgels m8

dont be rude
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you can have boreball. actually please take it and bury it somewhere in northern ireland
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>>67631451
How's that attention span treating y-HEY LOOK A TOUCHDOWN
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