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August 25, 20101918 - Leonard Bernstein
1917 - Mel Ferrer
1930 - Sir Sean Connery
1938 - Frederick Forsyth
1942 - Howard Jacobson
1947 - Ann Archer
1949 - Martin Amis
1954 - Elvis Costello
1956 - Matt Aitken
1961 - Billy Ray Cyrus
1970 - Claudia Schiffer
Baseball doesn’t have one single inventor, and if someone tells you that a man named Abner Doubleday invented baseball, feel free to tell them that they are full of horsefeathers! People have been hitting balls with sticks and running between bases for hundreds of years. The game we now know as baseball is a mix of very old games called “base” or “rounders.” The basic rules of modern baseball were made official in 1845 by several amateur teams playing in New York.
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