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|Text=<p>&nbsp;<span style="font-size: 14px;">That same spring, </span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Porter's</span><span style="font-size: 14px;"> estimated that there were 30 to 40 base ball and cricket teams on Long Island [which then included Brooklyn] alone.&nbsp;</span></p>
|Text=<p>&nbsp;<span style="font-size: 14px;">That same spring, </span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Porter's</span><span style="font-size: 14px;"> estimated that there were 30 to 40 base ball and cricket teams on Long Island [which then included Brooklyn] alone.&nbsp;</span></p>

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 That same spring, Porter's estimated that there were 30 to 40 base ball and cricket teams on Long Island [which then included Brooklyn] alone. 

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Seymour, Harold, Baseball: the Early Years [Oxford University Press, 1989], p. 24; probable source: "The Base Ball Convention," Porter's Spirit of the Times, vol. 4, no. 3, March 20, 1858, p. 37, cols. 2-3

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