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Baseball The USPS celebrates our nation’s passion for athletics with the Have a Ball! stamps. The issuance features colorful illustrations of eight different sports balls: • A baseball • A basketball • A football • A golf ball • A kickball • A soccer ball • A tennis ball • A volleyball The round Have a Ball! stamps feature a special coating applied to selected areas of the stamps during the printing process to give them a textured feel. Although baseball is popularly believed to be Abner Doubleday's "invention," that theory now is considered a myth. Baseball evolved from cricket and rounders, with similar games popular in the eastern United States by the 1820s. In 1846 a New York team defeated the Knickerbocker Baseball Club, which had drafted rules setting the team at nine players and the diamond at four bases. In 1857 a convention of baseball clubs set the length of a game at nine innings rather than 21 runs. The first baseball league was established a year later. The Cincinnati Red Stockings, now the Cincinnati Reds, was the first professional team. It won 91 games, while losing only one during 1869 and 1870. |
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