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[[File:Baseball game between Union prisoners at Salisbury, North Carolina, 1863 - NARA - 530502.jpg|thumbnail|300px|Figure 1. Baseball being played in a prisoner of war camp in the American Civil War.]]
Baseball is called America's pastime and looking at it one can see that the modern sport of baseball not only developed in the United States but it continues to be associated with the United States, similar to iconic places such as the Statue of Liberty or the Grand Canyon. The path baseball took to becoming the sport it is today started in the early Medieval period, where it was a very different game. As with other major American sports, key developments occurred in Great Britain before then developing differently in the United States.
