Baseball-style games as well as player-endorsed versions, both manual and electronic, continue to be popular through the present day. Following the rise of star athletes in the early twentieth century, game manufacturers often used the star power of these athletes to help sell their playthings, whether baseball-style games or other toys. During the rise of the manufacture of board and card games in the mid-nineteenth century, it was natural that producers made games that mimicked the play of the game that virtually every boy and man loved. Joe Pritchard has won the 7th game of the World Series in wiffleball, video games, board games, and of course, in his dreams. Make me feel like I’m at the game, and I’ll keep coming back. The game's history reflects much of the concurrent history of the United States, and American interest in the game has grown exponentially since its beginnings. In short, my definition of realism in a game is to not only be statistically accurate, but to tell me a story while we’re at it. Once a simple pastime for boys, it evolved in the nineteenth century into a commercialized spectator amusement operated by promoters and played by professionals within a nationwide, monopolistic structure called Organized Baseball. Well before the year 1900, baseball was already known as the American National Game.
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