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|Headline=Town Ball Played at U. of Alabama
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|Tags=College,  
|Tags=College,  
|Location='Bama Boys Play Town Ball on Campus
|Location=Alabama
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|Game=Town Ball,
|Age of Players=Youth
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|Text=<p>"Remembering his days as a student at the University of Alabama in the 1850s, George Little wrote of the penchant for playing town ball: 'Our favorite outdoor game was town ball.&nbsp; This game was played very much like the modern game of baseball but was played with a soft rubber ball.&nbsp; The ball was thrown at the runner and if he was hit between bases he was out.'"&nbsp;</p>
|Text=<p>"Remembering his days as a student at the University of Alabama in the 1850s, George Little wrote of the penchant for playing town ball: 'Our favorite outdoor game was town ball.&nbsp; This game was played very much like the modern game of baseball but was played with a soft rubber ball.&nbsp; The ball was thrown at the runner and if he was hit between bases he was out.'"&nbsp;</p>

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Game Town Ball
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"Remembering his days as a student at the University of Alabama in the 1850s, George Little wrote of the penchant for playing town ball: 'Our favorite outdoor game was town ball.  This game was played very much like the modern game of baseball but was played with a soft rubber ball.  The ball was thrown at the runner and if he was hit between bases he was out.'" 

Sources

George Little, Memoirs of George Little (Weatherford Printing Company, Tuscaloosa, 1924), age 14.  As reported by Tom Altherr, Town Ball at the University of Alabama in the 1850s,  Originals, volume 3, number 10 (October 2010), page 2.

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