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The original MLB.com documentary that uncovered a startling reference to "Base Ball" in a 1755 diary found in England will be aired as a television premiere by the MLB Network at 6 p.m. ET Sunday -- sure to provoke even more thought about the game's origins.

"Base Ball Discovered" is narrated by Golden Globe and Emmy-winning actor Edward James Olmos, and last September it won the Award for Baseball Excellence at the third annual Baseball Film Festival at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, NY. The award is given to the film which excels in research, factual accuracy, historical context, appreciation of the game, and/or embodiment of the spirit of baseball.

The film is a detailed exploration of the many generational theories about the origins of America's national pastime that will take viewers overseas as it makes an unexpected and historic discovery in Surrey, a county in the Southeast of England. An MLB.com crew was in England simply to trace the roots of the various games from rounders to cricket to stoolball, and the British Broadcast Company was so fascinated by that pursuit that it invited its viewers to offer any evidence they might have regarding baseball's roots on those shores.

Sounds like an interesting theory.

I watched show tonight. It was very interesting. I'm sure it will be repeated. (MLBTV)

Well, tell us about it, was it worth wtching?

It's only interesting to "nuts" like us...........very convincing to me that base ball was not "invented" by Abner Doubleday at Cooperstown, NY, that's for sure. The show produces "proof" that base ball was mentioned in an English woman's diary in 1755.

Alexander Cartwright refined the game and gave it the form that is used today, but its very possible the origins came from England.