What is the purpose of the following passage? As early as 1944, a book
described playing a game called base ball, A
bat with a flat end was used by a batter who
tried to hit a ball thrown underhanded by a
pitcher. A catcher stood behind the batter. If
the batter hit the ball, he ran to a base and
back again to score a point. These bases
were posts, not bags. *
to persuade readers that baseball is the
best game ever played,
to describe the early stages of the game of
baseball
to entertain by telling about an early
baseball game
to inform the reader about the rules of
baseball