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{{Predecessor Game
{{Predecessor Game
|Name=Predecessor Game in Nauvoo in 1841
|Name=Predecessor Game in Nauvoo in 1841
|Date=1/1/1841
|Coordinates=40.550042, -91.3848749
|Entry Origin=Sabrpedia
|Type of Date=Year
|Type of Date=Year
|Date=1841/01/01
|Country=United States
|State=IL
|City=Nauvoo
|City=Nauvoo
|State=IL
|Game=Predecessor Game
|Country=United States
|Coordinates=40.550042, -91.3848749
|Description=<p>There is considerable evidence that Joseph Smith, the founder of the LDS Church, played a bat-ball game, and that later reminiscences hinted that this was baseball. The Ken Burns baseball series hints at this. The sources are accumulted at <a href="http://timesandseasons.org/index.php/2012/11/joseph-smith-and-baseball-the-evidence/" class="external free" title="http://timesandseasons.org/index.php/2012/11/joseph-smith-and-baseball-the-evidence/" rel="nofollow">http://timesandseasons.org/index.php/2012/11/joseph-smith-and-baseball-the-evidence/</a> . The evidence suggests that a bat-ball game was played at Nauvoo in 1841.
|Description=<p>There is considerable evidence that Joseph Smith, the founder of the LDS Church, played a bat-ball game, and that later reminiscences hinted that this was baseball. The Ken Burns baseball series hints at this. The sources are accumulted at <a href="http://timesandseasons.org/index.php/2012/11/joseph-smith-and-baseball-the-evidence/" class="external free" title="http://timesandseasons.org/index.php/2012/11/joseph-smith-and-baseball-the-evidence/" rel="nofollow">http://timesandseasons.org/index.php/2012/11/joseph-smith-and-baseball-the-evidence/</a> . The evidence suggests that a bat-ball game was played at Nauvoo in 1841.
</p><p>Smith had grown up in upstate New York, and may have been exposed to some early form of baseball there.
</p><p>Smith had grown up in upstate New York, and may have been exposed to some early form of baseball there.
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|Sources=<p><a href="http://timesandseasons.org/index.php/2012/11/joseph-smith-and-baseball-the-evidence/" class="external free" title="http://timesandseasons.org/index.php/2012/11/joseph-smith-and-baseball-the-evidence/" rel="nofollow">http://timesandseasons.org/index.php/2012/11/joseph-smith-and-baseball-the-evidence/</a>
|Sources=<p><a href="http://timesandseasons.org/index.php/2012/11/joseph-smith-and-baseball-the-evidence/" class="external free" title="http://timesandseasons.org/index.php/2012/11/joseph-smith-and-baseball-the-evidence/" rel="nofollow">http://timesandseasons.org/index.php/2012/11/joseph-smith-and-baseball-the-evidence/</a>
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|Reviewed=No
|Has Source On Hand=No
|Submitted by=Bruce Allardice
|Submitted by=Bruce Allardice
|Entry Origin=Sabrpedia
|Reviewed=Yes
|Game=Predecessor Game
}}
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Revision as of 14:23, 13 May 2013

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Date of Game 1841
Game Predecessor Game
Location Nauvoo, IL, United States
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Description

There is considerable evidence that Joseph Smith, the founder of the LDS Church, played a bat-ball game, and that later reminiscences hinted that this was baseball. The Ken Burns baseball series hints at this. The sources are accumulted at http://timesandseasons.org/index.php/2012/11/joseph-smith-and-baseball-the-evidence/ . The evidence suggests that a bat-ball game was played at Nauvoo in 1841.

Smith had grown up in upstate New York, and may have been exposed to some early form of baseball there.

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http://timesandseasons.org/index.php/2012/11/joseph-smith-and-baseball-the-evidence/

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Submitted by Bruce Allardice
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