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Baseball
(Olympic.org)
Updated: 2006-08-21 19:26  Olympic sport since 1992
Baseball's stature in the history of the United States is perhaps reflected
more clearly in a simple dictionary rather than in the seven-centimetre-thick
baseball encyclopaedia.
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Diego Padres batter Dave Roberts (R) strikes out for the final out of the
game with men on base as New York Mets catcher Paul Lo Duca holds the ball
in their National League baseball game in New York, August 8, 2006. Mets
won 3-2. [Reuters] |
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you can find the word Ruthian, meaning "of mammoth proportions", as in a home
run by Babe Ruth back in the 1920s. There, you can find Lou Gehrig's disease, as
the incurable degenerative illness amyotrophic lateral sclerosis has been better
known since Lou Gehrig, Ruth's team-mate, died from it in the 1940s. In the
United States, baseball and the English language are interwoven.
However, just as the game did not begin as a wholly US enterprise, it did not
end the 20th century as one either. Baseball's all-time home-run champion is a
man named Sadaharu Oh, who hit 868 during a legendary career in baseball-mad
Japan. The national team of Cuba overpowered the Baltimore Orioles of the US
major leagues 12-6 in a 1999 exhibition game.
American baseball became a full medal sport in Barcelona in 1992.
LIST OF EVENTS
baseball Men
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