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|Game Family=Baseball
|Game Family=Baseball
|Location=PA
|Location=PA
|Game Tags=1800s, US,
|Game Regions=US
|Description=<p>As played in Eastern PA in the 1850s this game is recalled as having four or five bases or &ldquo;safety spots,&rdquo; tagging instead of plugging, the fly rule, the sharing of bases by multiple runners, and a bat made of a rail or clap-board. A game &ldquo;similar to baseball&rdquo; recalled as being played by school boys in 1891 in a grove of trees in Beech Grove, Kentucky.</p>
|Game Eras=1800s
|Sources=<p><span>J. Lambert and H. Reinhard,&nbsp;</span><em>A History of Catasaqua in Lehigh County</em><span>&nbsp;(Searle and Dressler, Allentown, 1914), page 364.</span></p>
|Description=<p>As played in Eastern PA in the 1850s this game is recalled as having four or five bases or “safety spots,” tagging instead of plugging, the fly rule, the sharing of bases by multiple runners, and a bat made of a rail or clap-board. A game “similar to baseball” recalled as being played by school boys in 1891 in a grove of trees in Beech Grove, Kentucky.</p>
<p><span>William F. Mason,&nbsp;<span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Journal of William Franklin Mason</span>, completed in 1954; from&nbsp;<a href="http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ky/elliott/mason/mason29.txt" target="_blank">http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ky/elliott/mason/mason29.txt</a>,&nbsp;accessed 2/24/2008.</span></p>
|Sources=<p><span>J. Lambert and H. Reinhard, </span><em>A History of Catasaqua in Lehigh County</em><span> (Searle and Dressler, Allentown, 1914), page 364.</span></p>
<p><span>William F. Mason, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Journal of William Franklin Mason</span>, completed in 1954; from <a href="http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ky/elliott/mason/mason29.txt">http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ky/elliott/mason/mason29.txt</a>, accessed 2/24/2008.</span></p>
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Game Round Town (Round Town Ball)
Game Family Baseball Baseball
Location PA
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Eras 1800s
Description

As played in Eastern PA in the 1850s this game is recalled as having four or five bases or “safety spots,” tagging instead of plugging, the fly rule, the sharing of bases by multiple runners, and a bat made of a rail or clap-board. A game “similar to baseball” recalled as being played by school boys in 1891 in a grove of trees in Beech Grove, Kentucky.

Sources

J. Lambert and H. Reinhard, A History of Catasaqua in Lehigh County (Searle and Dressler, Allentown, 1914), page 364.

William F. Mason, The Journal of William Franklin Mason, completed in 1954; from http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ky/elliott/mason/mason29.txt, accessed 2/24/2008.

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