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Text | William H. van Cott is elected NABBP President.
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Sources | "Our National Sports," Porter's Spirit of the Times, January 31, 1857. Reprinted in Dean A. Sullivan, Compiler and Editor, Early Innings: A Documentary History of Baseball, 1825-1908 [University of Nebraska Press, 1995], pp. 22-24. |
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Comment | Peter Morris notes that the NABBP commissioned five men "to confer with the Central Park Commissioners in relation to a grant of public lands for base ball purposes. Morris, Peter, Level Playing Fields: How the Groundskeeping Murphy Brothers Shaped Baseball (University of Nebraska Press, 2007), page 18. Edit with form to add a comment |
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1857.2 National Association of Base Ball Players Forms"
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