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Evolving from older bat-and-ball games, an early form of baseball was being played in England by the mid-eighteenth century.

This game was brought by immigrants to North America, where the modern version developed.

By the late nineteenth century, baseball was widely recognized as the national sport of the United States.

Baseball is now popular in North America, parts of Central and South America and the Caribbean, and parts of East Asia.