Three-Base Ball

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Game	Three-Base Ball
Game Family	Baseball Baseball
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Description	Craig Waff came across an 1894 reference to Three-Base Ball as having been played at Erasmus Hall, a school in Brooklyn. The game, reported as being playing circa 1840, involved vigorous plugging and while its rules are not further described, its playing positions suggest base ball. Two-Old-Cat is described separately in the 1894 article.
Sources	Block, David, Baseball before We Knew It: A Search for the Roots of the Game [University of Nebraska Press, 2005]., pages 147-148.
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