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A Short, Sweet, and Slightly Biased History of Major League Baseball and the World Series Baseball: America’s pastime, national obsession, and the only sport where chewing gum, spitting, and adjusting your pants are considered essential athletic skills. It’s been around long enough to have outlived empires, hairstyles, and half the stadiums it was played in—and it all started in the 19th century when bored gentlemen in wool uniforms decided that hitting a ball with a stick wa