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NY Game is Called Dominant in CA

Salience Noteworthy
Location California
City/State/Country: CA, United States
Game Base Ball
Immediacy of Report Contemporary
Age of Players Adult
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"Many new clubs are being formed, and it gives me pleasure to state that the "National Association," or New York game, is the only style of ball playing at all encouraged in California."

Sources

Wilkes Spirit of the Times, December 1, 1860. Per Millen, Patricia, From Pastime to Passion: Baseball and the Civil War (Heritage Books, 2007), p. 8.

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