Twenty years later dozens of baseball clubs in New York and Brooklyn, had made what they called the "national pastime" more popular than cricket, and the metropolis had become the country's first baseball powerhouse. ... While city populations swelled in the late nineteenth century, and mass entertainment was born at places like Coney Island, baseball fans flocked to watch a game featuring individuals, isolated and surrounded by the green grass of ballparks. ...

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