Nationality groups athletes by the country each one represented. Wikipedia describes Pele as "a Brazilian professional footballer who played as a forward," a nationality he represented on the pitch to win three World Cups. This dimension shows which countries produced the athletes behind a given sport's history.
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Era of Origin United States
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1. Wikipedia: Scrabble
WikipediaScrabble, History sectionQuote, Scrabble, History section
In 1931 in Poughkeepsie, New York, the American architect Alfred Mosher Butts created the game as a variation on an earlier word game he invented, called Lexiko.
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Why does this atlas treat Scrabble champions as athletes?
Scrabble champions and professional competitors are carried as athlete entities, matching this atlas's treatment of mind sports generally.
This subcategory groups athletes who competed in Scrabble, the word-formation tile game, including Scrabble champions and professional competitors. Players of other tile or board games are grouped under their own categories, since this atlas treats each mind sport's top competitors as athlete entities in their own right.