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|Text=<p>&nbsp;<span style="font-size: 14px;">That same spring, </span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Porter's</span><span style="font-size: 14px;"> estimated that there were 30 to 40 base ball and cricket teams on Long Island [which then included Brooklyn] alone.&nbsp;</span></p>
<p>That same spring, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Porter's</span> estimated that there were 30 to 40 base ball and cricket teams on Long Island [which then included Brooklyn] alone.&nbsp;</p>
|Sources=<p>Seymour, Harold,&nbsp;<span>Baseball: the Early Years</span>&nbsp;[Oxford University Press, 1989], p. 24; probable source:&nbsp;<span style="font-size: 14px;">"The Base Ball Convention," Porter's Spirit of the Times</span><span style="font-size: 14px;">, vol. 4, no. 3, March 20, 1858, p. 37, cols. 2-3</span></p>
|Sources=<p>Seymour, Harold,&nbsp;<span>Baseball: the Early Years</span>&nbsp;[Oxford University Press, 1989], p. 24. [No ref given.]</p>
<p><span>Porter's Spirit of the Times</span>, March 27, 1858, as cited in Ryczek,&nbsp;<span>Baseball's First Inning</span>&nbsp;(McFarland, 2009), page 75.</p>
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 That same spring, Porter's estimated that there were 30 to 40 base ball and cricket teams on Long Island [which then included Brooklyn] alone. 

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Seymour, Harold, Baseball: the Early Years [Oxford University Press, 1989], p. 24; probable source: "The Base Ball Convention," Porter's Spirit of the Times, vol. 4, no. 3, March 20, 1858, p. 37, cols. 2-3

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