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Excerpt from The American Legion Weekly, Vol. 7: April 24, 1925 This article, however, and the one to follow it will not be concerned with antediluvian pastimes. Let us start in 1839, when Americans first began the cultivation of baseball in their native orchard. The planters employed the methods of an orange grower who grafts branches from several trees on another, and in time, as the result of the combination and bud vari ation, develops an organ improved in color, size and taste - ah orange that resembles its different ancestors, but which, as the result of intelligent horticulture, has become a mutant, an improvement on its lineage. Just as this orange grower does, so did Americans take many branches of games, graft them to a parent tree, and out of the combination evolve a mutation, a variation, an improvement on various ancestors - to wit, baseball. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.