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I was going to respond with the factoid about the World Series being named after a newspaper, but a Wikipedia check (and subsequent googling) revealed that it's probably false. Not news to you, but maybe of interest to others who, like me, had absorbed the popular misconception!

American Football is actually based on the delineation between sports played on horseback and on foot. So maybe it is an antiquated distinction but it makes sense. Maybe we can rename it infantryball.

Surely it should be called netball, since baskets haven't been involved for more than a century.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netball

> Don't want to call it sackball or something like that? Or maybe shuttlebasket?

What?