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|Text=<p>"Apart from rowing and track, baseball was the only other intercollegiate sport to generate much interest prior to 1869. Boys from the eastern academies introduced a version of baseball to college campuses in the 1840s and 1850s."</p> | |Text=<p>"Apart from rowing and track, baseball was the only other intercollegiate sport to generate much interest prior to 1869. Boys from the eastern academies introduced a version of baseball to college campuses in the 1840s and 1850s."</p> | ||
<p>Benjamin Rader, <u>American</u> Sports (Prentice-Hall, 1983), page 74: no citation given. <b>Caveat: </b> Recent research calls this assertion into some question, as we now have many prior references to college ballplaying, including cricket and wicket. See <a href="http://retrosheet.org/Protoball/Sub.College.htm">http://retrosheet.org/Protoball/Sub.College.htm</a>.</p> | <p>Benjamin Rader, <u>American</u> Sports (Prentice-Hall, 1983), page 74: no citation given. <b>Caveat: </b> Recent research calls this assertion into some question, as we now have many prior references to college ballplaying, including cricket and wicket. See <a href="http://retrosheet.org/Protoball/Sub.College.htm">http://retrosheet.org/Protoball/Sub.College.htm</a>.</p> | ||
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| Text | "Apart from rowing and track, baseball was the only other intercollegiate sport to generate much interest prior to 1869. Boys from the eastern academies introduced a version of baseball to college campuses in the 1840s and 1850s." Benjamin Rader, American Sports (Prentice-Hall, 1983), page 74: no citation given. Caveat: Recent research calls this assertion into some question, as we now have many prior references to college ballplaying, including cricket and wicket. See http://retrosheet.org/Protoball/Sub.College.htm. |
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