Clipping:An early attribution of town ball as an intermediate game between rounders and baseball

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Date	Tuesday, July 21, 1874
Text	Col. Fitzgerald–Dear Sir:–Please answer through your ever-welcome all-day paper, if your National Game of base ball is an English game, or if it was ever played in England under the title of Rounders. Yours, truly, Jas. K. McAlees. N.B.–The above question is to settle an argument between a cricketer and a base ball player. Ans.–The game was originally rounders, then it became town-ball, (an elaboration of rounders,) and then base ball, which marked the advent of our National Game, as, by the introduction of bases, and special rules for play, it acquired characteristics that made it distinctly an American pastime.
Source	Philadelphia All-Day City Item
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Submitted by	Richard Hershberger
Origin	Initial Hershberger Clippings

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