Baseball

Baseball is called the great American game. Hardly a child in the United State has grown up without playing it. The game is also popular in Canada, Mexico and other parts of Latin America, Japan, and other countries in Asia.
The game is so much a part of American life that its term have been adopted into the everyday speech of the people. “Pinch-hit,” “going to bat,” and scores of other baseball terms are used even by people who are not well acquaninted with the game.
During World Awar II Germans dressed in American uniforms turned up behind the American lines. Many of them spoke English very well and could pass as American soldiers. But the United States Army found a way to tell which were false and which were real Americans. They halted strange soldiers at checkpoints anda asked them question abiut baseball and some of its star players. Guenine Americans, who couldn’t, were promptly made prisoners of war.