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September 19, 20111931 - Brook Benton
1934 - Brian Epstein
1928 - Pete Murray
1933 - David McCallum
1940 - Zandra Rhodes
1940 - Bill Medley
1945 - Kate Adie
1946 - Michael Elphick
1948 - Jeremy Irons
1949 - Twiggy
1963 - David Seaman
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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