Assertion: baseball | /r/HasProperty | american
Facets:
value: truly
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: In 1889, Mills gave a speech declaring that baseball was American, which he said was determined through "patriotism and research"; a crowd of about 300 people responding by chanting "No rounders!
text: Indeed, baseball is a truly American Game –
text: So baseball is America’s game, eh?
text: One, mostly English, asserted that baseball evolved from a game of English origin (probably rounders); the other, almost entirely American, said that baseball was an American invention (perhaps derived from the game of one-ol'-cat).
text: Spalding claimed baseball was invented free of such influences and was a wholly American-made sport.
text: Spalding hoped the commission would unearth proof that baseball was invented in America, and conveniently he soon found evidence for his preferred narrative in a letter to the editor penned by an elderly mining engineer from Colorado.