well its a hard question to answer
The Mesoamerican Ballgame.
No, the definition of a sport is an organized or unorganized recreation with competition and the following of certain rules. Visual arts are an activity, not a sport.
Late 1800s.
If there was sport, there was probably minimal organization at best.
Hundreds of millions around the world.
little league baseball
soccer
Collegiate swimming (and diving) is an NCAA sport and organized into three divisions by school size just as other sports are: D1, D2, and D3. It is a winter sport, and there is both mens' and womens' swimming. At some colleges swimming is a club sport, not a varsity sport, and falls outside NCAA purview although the same rules are usually followed.
The first organized sport in American history is often considered to be baseball, which began to take shape in the mid-19th century. While various bat-and-ball games existed earlier, the establishment of formal rules and organized teams, such as the Knickerbocker Base Ball Club in 1845, marked baseball's emergence as a structured sport. Other early organized sports included rowing and horse racing, but baseball's rapid growth and formalization set it apart as a defining American pastime.
because you play it and you gain speed and you gain musceles Because it meets all the criteria for a sport: an organized, competitive athletic activity governed by a set of rules.
I would definetly go with baseball for America.