Early forms of baseball were played in cities such as New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and Rochester as well as in many rural towns and villages.

纽约、波士顿、费城和罗切斯特等城市，以及一些乡村小镇上开始举行早期的棒球比赛。

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Deion Sanders and Bo Jackson, both of whom played professional football and baseball, are two of the most well-known examples.

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Thorpe was retroactively stripped of his amateur status and his medals when it was discovered, well after the official deadline for filing a challenge, that he had played minor-league professional baseball for two summers before the Olympics.

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