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PERHAPS NOBODY'S NOTICED, BUT what has been hailed since time immemorial as America's "national pastime" is far more than that, and to a certain extent has been so from its very beginnings.
It might not be stretching the point to assert that baseball has developed into an "international pastime," a sport whose appeal has spread around the globe and bids to become almost universal. At last count, major and minor league players in the United States came from 31 countries, forming a virtual United Nations of baseball.
Not that such widespread recruiting is entirely new. Foreign-born players have been prominent in the game from its earliest days. Brothers ...
Source: HighBeam Research, The wide world of baseball: foreign-born players are filling major...