In the American newspaper the New York Times published an interesting material, which suggests that the ancestor of American baseball was Russian lapta.
The newspaper writes that “many Russian athletes are inclined to believe that baseball is isklyuchitelnosttakogo game”. Next is a brief excursion into the history of what baseball was an Olympic sport until 2008. A Bob Protexter opened Russian baseball in the 80s, believes that the obsession with the Russian Olympics may again baseball to regain the title of Olympic discipline in anticipation of the summer Olympic games in Tokyo.
But the former Manager of an independent site web statistics baseball in Russia Sergei Fokin believes that baseball will never become a popular sport in our country. “We know what bits and how to use it in sports,” quipped Borisov.
Indeed, says the author, “the Russians have long known how to use a bat in sports, because they from ancient times are playing a traditional game called rounders. Given the history of rounders, some of the ardent supporters of the game, including Stalin, argued that the national sport of America may be rooted in the Russian province”.
There is logic in this because there is a perception that lapta in Russia appeared in the XIV century, when America did not exist. Although France had found manuscripts with images of the game, similar to rounders.
“Our theory is that the Russian immigrants and Jews from Odessa were brought rounders to America, and from it has developed a baseball,” says Vice-President of the Russian Federation rounders Sergey Fokin. “Rounders is much older than we think, and there are many like her games: to run a race, kick the ball and catch the ball” – adds Sergey.
Just as the Americans are hoping for the return of baseball in a number of Olympic disciplines Russians believe that the bast allotted a place in the emergence of baseball.
Again, the French also had found cases of games similar to rounders, and in the XII century. But if you dig a little deeper, and among other peoples, something like met. So it is not known whether the Russian brought baseball to America or any other persons, from which was formed the “birthplace of democracy”. And that is the main thing to convince the Russians that the rounders – the ancestor of baseball. And then they will go straight through the forehead, prolobbirovat baseball in the Olympic Committee, and do hit in this game, giving it more popularity. Nice try. I almost believed you.
