RallyPoint Shared Content 1066882 <div class="images-v2-count-1"><div class="content-picture image-v2-number-1" id="image-65451"> <div class="social_icons social-buttons-on-image"> <a href='https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rallypoint.com%2Fanswers%2Famerican-military-forces-spread-baseball-all-over-the-world%3Futm_source%3DFacebook%26utm_medium%3Dorganic%26utm_campaign%3DShare%20to%20facebook' target="_blank" class='social-share-button facebook-share-button'><i class="fa fa-facebook-f"></i></a> <a href="https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=American+military+forces+spread+baseball+all+over+the+world&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rallypoint.com%2Fanswers%2Famerican-military-forces-spread-baseball-all-over-the-world&amp;via=RallyPoint" target="_blank" class="social-share-button twitter-custom-share-button"><i class="fa fa-twitter"></i></a> <a href="mailto:?subject=Check this out on RallyPoint!&body=Hi, I thought you would find this interesting:%0D%0AAmerican military forces spread baseball all over the world%0D%0A %0D%0AHere is the link: https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/american-military-forces-spread-baseball-all-over-the-world" target="_blank" class="social-share-button email-share-button"><i class="fa fa-envelope"></i></a> </div> <a class="fancybox" rel="85cf3ffe0219413e4b59ef193fafcdda" href="https://d1ndsj6b8hkqu9.cloudfront.net/pictures/images/000/065/451/for_gallery_v2/b7b2da2a.jpg"><img src="https://d1ndsj6b8hkqu9.cloudfront.net/pictures/images/000/065/451/large_v3/b7b2da2a.jpg" alt="B7b2da2a" /></a></div></div>From Kennebec Journal:<br /><br />Armed American forces have fought in 85 out of the 194 countries in the world (excluding the USA itself) or 44 percent of the total. Over the course of this amazing history, filled as it is with heroic liberations and a few tragic blunders, we Americans have had one undeniable achievement — we have exported the game of baseball around much of the world.<br /><br /><a target="_blank" href="http://www.centralmaine.com/2015/10/24/american-military-forces-spread-baseball-all-over-the-world/">http://www.centralmaine.com/2015/10/24/american-military-forces-spread-baseball-all-over-the-world/</a> <div class="pta-link-card answers-template-image type-default"> <div class="pta-link-card-picture"> <img src="https://d26horl2n8pviu.cloudfront.net/link_data_pictures/images/000/026/768/qrc/443658_3edit_Essay_250px19p.jpg?1445878178"> </div> <div class="pta-link-card-content"> <p class="pta-link-card-title"> <a target="blank" href="http://www.centralmaine.com/2015/10/24/american-military-forces-spread-baseball-all-over-the-world/">American military forces spread baseball all over the world - Central Maine</a> </p> <p class="pta-link-card-description">Following the steps of Roman gladiator games and England&#39;s rugby and cricket, baseball became a legacy of war.</p> </div> <div class="clearfix"></div> </div> 2015-10-26T12:50:46-04:00 RallyPoint Shared Content 1066882

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2015-10-26T12:50:46-04:00 2015-10-26T12:50:46-04:00 Capt Seid Waddell 1066901

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Democracy too.

2015-10-26T12:56:04-04:00 2015-10-26T12:56:04-04:00 MCPO Roger Collins 1067172

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Hate to be a chronic curmudgeon, but aren't we cutting actual AD rifle toters? Shouldn't this be cut first? Not sure how baseball is relevant to our National Security.

2015-10-26T14:29:59-04:00 2015-10-26T14:29:59-04:00 SFC Joseph Weber 1068115

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>In the timeless words of Chico Esquela "base-ball has been berry berry good to me" It's good we spread the greatest game ever to the world.

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