We are one people, divided by a common language...
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And how could we forget, from 2013, the BBC News website describing baseball as 'cricket for Americans'.... 
Social history finds that both baseball and cricket descend from medieval English bat-and-ball games, games in which two villages would line up across a meadow and hot a ball at each other. Of course there were variations. The New England colonists brought the game over, adding variations. One variation was played in that first game at Elysian Fields in New Jersey. That first game was played by gentleman New Yorkers, gentlemen somewhat like the English gentleman's game called cricket. Baseball, in near its current form, seems to have spread throughout the Union armies in the Civil War. In the 1880's, for instance, several versions of the Washington Nationals were organized at Mike Scanlon's 9th Street poolroom. Scanlon had served in the Army of the Potomac, where he came to love baseball. Thus, baseball became a people's game, with a popular base similar to soccer-football in Britain.
