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Old-Fashioned Ballgame Noted in Antebellum GA

Salience Noteworthy
Location US South
Game Base Ball
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"A number of gentlemen are about to form another base ball club, the game to be played after the fashion in the South twenty years ago, when old field schools were the scenes of trial of activity, and rosy cheeked girls were the umpires"

Macon Daily Telegraph, March 2, 1860. Posted to 19CBB by John Thorn, 9/11/2007.

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