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|Headline=Phillips Exeter Academy Used Plugging in "Base-ball?"
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|Year=1859
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|Text=<p>"Baseball was played at Exeter in a desultory fashion for a good many years before it was finally organized into the modern game.  On October 19, 1859, Professor Cilley wrote in his diary: 'Match game of Base-Ball between the Phillips club and 17 chosen from the school at large commenced P.M.  I was Referee.  Two players were disabled and the game adjourned.'  Putting a man out by striking him with the ball when he was running bases often led to injury."</p>
|Text=<p>"Baseball was played at Exeter in a desultory fashion for a good many years before it was finally organized into the modern game.  On October 19, 1859, Professor Cilley wrote in his diary: 'Match game of Base-Ball between the Phillips club and 17 chosen from the school at large commenced P.M.  I was Referee.  Two players were disabled and the game adjourned.'  Putting a man out by striking him with the ball when he was running bases often led to injury."</p>
<p>Crosbie, Laurence M., The Phillips Exeter Academy: A History, 1923, page 233.  Submitted by George Thompson, 2005.  [<b>Note:</b> Cilley himself does not attribute the 1859 injuries to plugging.]</p>
<p>Crosbie, Laurence M., The Phillips Exeter Academy: A History, 1923, page 233.  Submitted by George Thompson, 2005.  [<b>Note:</b> Cilley himself does not attribute the 1859 injuries to plugging.]</p>
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"Baseball was played at Exeter in a desultory fashion for a good many years before it was finally organized into the modern game. On October 19, 1859, Professor Cilley wrote in his diary: 'Match game of Base-Ball between the Phillips club and 17 chosen from the school at large commenced P.M. I was Referee. Two players were disabled and the game adjourned.' Putting a man out by striking him with the ball when he was running bases often led to injury."

Crosbie, Laurence M., The Phillips Exeter Academy: A History, 1923, page 233. Submitted by George Thompson, 2005. [Note: Cilley himself does not attribute the 1859 injuries to plugging.]

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