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# Baseball as evolutionary sport
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/baseball-as-evolution-sport/
- Published: 2011-05-02T18:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T15:55:06.000Z
- Description: We forget sometimes that videogames are part of a larger rubric of play, but these observations on how baseball “evolved” from Tim Carmody over at Snarkmarket are dead-on. You could probably make a similar argument about Call of Duty: Modern Warfare: And every difference between early baseball and t
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We forget sometimes that videogames are part of a larger rubric of play, but these observations on how baseball “evolved” from Tim Carmody [over at Snarkmarket](http://snarkmarket.com/2011/6811?ref=killscreen.com) are dead-on. You could probably make a similar argument about *Call of Duty: Modern Warfare*:

> And every difference between early baseball and the game today which you might point to that seems huge – fielders didn’t use gloves? Batters got to tell pitchers where they wanted a pitch? Baserunners would run into the outfield and across the middle of the infield to avoid tags? – doesn’t change that baseball 150 years ago looked almost exactly like the game you probably played in a yard or park or the middle of a street with your friends and brothers and sisters. The differences seem weird only because baseball is so unchanged.   
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> Once the game is there – in its basic shape, its [speciation](http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2011/04/rapidly%5Foscilla.php?ref=killscreen.com); it’s there.

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