Dr. john take me out to the ballgame5/30/2023 Tennis, though, is an exception in that the indoor form of the game was played with formal rules in England and France at least as far back as 1600. Tennis as we know it today was devised by Major Walter Clopton Wingfield, a British army officer, for the entertainment of guests at his country estate in 1873. Other sports had antecedents: soccer, rugby and American football were all formalised in the 1860s and 1870s from what appears to be a common origin, while baseball was standardised around that time, as was golf-though many Scots claim earlier origins. Only cricket set its rules earlier, in 1788. IT IS a strange coincidence that many popular sports played today with a ball, big or small, were first played in the latter half of the 19th century.
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