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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

Didn’t American football come out of Rugby? And wasn’t Baseball heavily based on a British game called Rounders?


88 posted on 06/11/2010 1:48:27 PM PDT by Borges
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To: Borges
Didn’t American football come out of Rugby?
Probably...dunno. But they are wildly different.

And wasn’t Baseball heavily based on a British game called Rounders?
On that...you may be correct. But our baseball is a definite refinement.

114 posted on 06/11/2010 2:04:08 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (You can only get smarter by engaging a smarter opponent.)
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