This is America. Гришенкова Е.Г. - 44 стр.

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5. When did the National Baseball Hall of Fame officially open?

6. How long have Americans played football?

7. What game was officially called football in 1876?

8. Why was Canton, Ohio chosen as a home town for Pro Football Hall of Fame?

9. Why do people visit the museum?

10. Where is the Basketball Hall of Fame located?

11. Why is the museum named in honor of James Naismith?

12. When was the museum established?

13. What is the museum like?

14. Why is it worth visiting?

SPORTS HALL OF FAME

Baseball, football and basketball are popular sports in the United States.

All three have museums that tell about the sports and honor their best players.

We start our story with a stop in the northeastern United States. The National

Baseball Hall of Fame is in Cooperstown, New York. Cooperstown is a small town

in the center of the state.

Some people believe that a man named Abner Doubleday invented the game of

baseball in Cooperstown in 1839. Doubleday and his friends used to chase cows out

of a field so they could play a game called “town ball.” Town ball involved twenty to

fifty boys. The boys attempted to catch a ball hit by a “tosser” who used a flat piece

of wood.

One day, the story goes, Abner Doubleday made changes to the game of town

ball. He reduced the number of players. He added a pitcher who threw the ball and a

catcher who caught it. He used a stick to draw a square-shaped area in the dirt. He

also added bases for the batter to run around after he hit the ball. The new game was

called baseball.

In 1934, an old baseball was discovered in a farmhouse near Cooperstown. It

was said to have belonged to one of the boys who played the first game of baseball

with Abner Doubleday.

A local businessman, Stephen Clark, wanted to show the old baseball to the

public. So he decided to establish a national baseball center. People from all over the

United States sent money and baseball objects for the new museum. Ford Frick was