How did baseball get the title "America's Game"?

It's often called 'America's Favorite Pastime' or America's Pastime', and not usually "America's Game".

Baseball is considered a development from an older game called rounders that was made popular in Great Britain and Ireland. It became an extremely popular sport in America during and just after the American Civil War. It was called "America's Pastime" because during the late 19th and early 20th century it was the most widely played sport in the country. Baseball was to that time period as video games and television are to today. Before TV, baseball was what kids did after school and on the weekends and during the summer...etc. It was literally how America passed the time.

Because in America's younger day, baseball was by far America's game. Football and basketball were decades away from being popular. It was the only great game in town and to some people here in 2014 it still is the only game in town and the only pro sport that isn't fixed like football, wrestling and basketball.

The correct title is "America's Pastime" - not America's Game

It's been America's Pastime for over a century.....!!

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