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CarelessHisser t1_ixtskdi wrote

I'd be willing to bet it's because they learned about how popular baseball was in America and had to swap up what they were doing.

Sorta like how they had to completely change their language because it sounded too French. Yea, modern English is further from the OG English than American English. Which is wild considering how much we've bastardized it.

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[deleted] t1_ixtu284 wrote

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brazzy42 t1_ixtwadb wrote

> Soccer means Association Football after all.

Yep, played by the rules of the Football Association, and not by the rules favored by some schools that didn't join said association... Like Rugby College.

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