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Jan 2
Base Ball Patents
Searching for the first, in the 1860s
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Sep 4, 2023
PIONEERS: Henry Chadwick
Sixteenth in a season-long series
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Jul 17, 2023
Baseball in the Garden of Eden
The Secret History of the Early Game: Introduction
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Nov 15, 2021
Brooklyn Before Baseball
The Sports They Played
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Oct 18, 2021
Baseball in Auld Lang Syne
By Ezra Kendall, the Master Monologist
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Aug 30, 2021
Discovered:
Images of George Stovey
Previously unknown to exist; sleuthery by Joe Williams
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Apr 26, 2021
How We Got Here
19th century baseball and why it matters
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Jan 21, 2020
A City Playground
How street children played more than a century ago
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Dec 6, 2018
SABR’s New Winter Meetings Book
A magnificent resource, covering the conclaves of 1857–1900
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Nov 2, 2018
Origins of the New York Game, Part 3
How did a regional game become the national pastime?
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