A strange little side quest
Between one round of Baseball Mania and the next, this is worth knowing: Archery was already on the Olympic programme in 1900, boxing joined the modern Games in 1904, and basketball became a medal sport in 1936. The timeline takes another interesting turn: Spacewar! appeared on MIT's PDP-1 in 1962 and became one of the earliest influential computer games shared among programmers. So a round of Baseball Mania is not just a quick distraction; it is a tiny stop on a much longer sports history timeline.
