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Heather Quashnie The History of Baseball The United States is credited with developing several popular sports, including some (such as baseball, football, and basketball) that have large fan bases and have been adopted internationally. But baseball, despite the spread of the game throughout the globe and the growing influence of Asian and Latin American leagues and players, is the sport that Americans still recognize as their "national pastime." It was nationalistic sentiment that helped to make baseball "America's game." In the quest to obtain greater cultural understanding, Americans yearned for a sport they could claim as their own. A powerful confirmation of baseball as the sport to fill that need came in 1907 when a special commission appointed by A.G. Spalding, a sporting goods magnate who had formerly been a star pitcher and an executive with a baseball team, reported that baseball owed absolutely nothing to England and the children's game of...

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