there's different variations of baseball over time like cricket and rounders but american baseball and the rules that we play by today is invented by african slaves as documented in the diaries of southern plantation owners as early as 1773, where baseball is played in the field, those same plantation fields, and there are ways to elongate the game so they don't have to go back to working the field, where slaves are beaten 15 lashes for even playing the game rather than working the field. the rules of how it's played are later reintroduced by a southerner to the northern states and it took off from there as revisionist history with the different leagues and using capitalism to drive the sport with sponsorships, but the negro leagues have long mastered the sport because they invented it, from the cotton-matted bases to the sugar molded into balls, the literal crops that were harvested were converted into baseball equipment, and then it got whitewashed to become a predominant white sport...hell, hockey was invented by blacks in canada and it got whitewashed, too...take back all those sports that we invented and dominate them
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...this may also be why baseball has wildly different rules from every other major sport because it's built on the trust of the people such as having managers that never get fired rather than head coaches that get put on the hot seat every time they lose a major game or have a losing season...certain white people are vindictive while people of melanin descent have a deep rooted faith that people should be innately good despite capitalism and the concept of money creating corruption, creating middle managers for meta gains, and overall misdeeds
...parts of basketball or hoopball are invented by the mayans, etc
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Did African American Slaves Play Baseball?
Master sleuths of early ball play have provided us with references to ball play by African Americans in bondage, but without clear evidence as to whether baseball was one of the games they played…
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Little Known Black History Fact: The Origins Of Hockey
The origin of hockey, most especially ice hockey, has been debated for years with some tracing the game’s roots back to regions of Europe and also connecting it to early Native American sports.
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...this may also be why baseball has wildly different rules from every other major sport because it's built on the trust of the people such as having managers that never get fired rather than head coaches that get put on the hot seat every time they lose a major game or have a losing season...certain white people are vindictive while people of melanin descent have a deep rooted faith that people should be innately good despite capitalism and the concept of money creating corruption, creating middle managers for meta gains, and overall misdeeds
...parts of basketball or hoopball are invented by the mayans, etc
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