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Discuss the evolution of American Baseball. What has stayed the same and what has changed? Baseball has been the prominent sport in American culture since the early 1800’s. The Evolution of baseball as a sport occurred through three main stages. These three stages are the bat and ball game, club based/ fraternal game, and finally the emergence into a commercial spectator sport. The first stage of baseball was the bat and ball game, initiated in …

…with separate leagues under it to divide teams in certain divisions. The idea of a Players Association was constructed within the last century to help players and management with labor disputes. These among several little changes made baseball the game it is today. Baseball has evolved from a spare time game to the nations pastime in a little more than a century. One can imagine what will happen to this sport during the next century.