Baseball=Rounders/ Basketball=Netball & AmFootball=Rugby

[SOTONS EAST SIDE]

Americans ripped off theses old english games,and renamed them. Yet still claim their games were around first!lol

True or Not!

[Baj]

Re: Baseball (from wikipedia)

The game is thought to have originated in England some time before 1755, as noted by William Bray, a lawyer from the period whose diary historians have recently authenticated. The consensus of historians is that it evolved from earlier bat-and-ball games, such as cricket and rounders.

[Baj]

Re: Basketball

Basketball, netball, dodgeball, volleyball, and lacrosse are the only ball games which have been identified as being invented by North Americans.

[equalizer]

They came up with the modern rules of Baseball that is played today, that's what they like to tell you, if you tell a Yank that it comes from our game of Rounders. It really winds them up! But then again them calling football, "soccer" winds me up!

[Pancake]

Bungle is going to pop when he sees this.

[bungle]

Bungle is going to pop when he sees this.

 

To be fair, I've never heard an American claim that 'their' sports were around before 'ours' - so I'm not sure what the point of this thread is?

[Thedelldays]

To be fair, I've never heard an American claim that 'their' sports were around before 'ours' - so I'm not sure what the point of this thread is?

that others have heard these claims.....perhaps?

[Gully]

To be fair the bases of most sports will have been invented a few hundred years ago, for example the first people to kick a ball, hit a ball in a certain way and throw a ball. Very few sports are completely original.

 

That said Baseball especially is just a better version of rouders.

[Deppo]

Fight!

[jawillwill]

Fight!

 

Bloody Americans nicked that sport from us too! :mad: