Four most popular team sports
football
basketball
baseball
ice hockey
• Baseball is the oldest of
the major American
teamsports. Professional
baseball dates from 1869
and had no close rivals in
popularity until the 1960s;
though baseball is no
longer the most popular
sport it is still referred to
as the "national pastime
• Football now attracts
more television
viewers than
baseball; however,
National Football
League teams play
only 16 regularseason games each
year, so baseball is
the runaway leader in
ticket sales
• Basketball, invented
in Massachusetts by
the Canadian-born
James Naismith, is
another popular sport,
represented
professionally by the
National Basketball
Association.
• Soccer is another
popular team sport
played in the United
States. Soccer is the
number one youth
participation sport in the
U.S. today, more popular
even than football,
baseball, basketball, or
hockey, up to about the
age of 13.
What is this man?
• What kind of
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