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This book has not been evaluated as of Nov. 2013. An EBay blurb does not mention the early history of FL ballplaying. +
This book has not been evaluated n Nov. 2013. Available information is taken from an EBay offer in 2006. +
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This book has not been obtained as of Nov. 2013. +
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This book has not been scoped out. It is mainly a pictorial history. +
This book has not been scrutinized in Nov. 2013. +
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This book of fiction, based on factual accounts adduced on pp 231-232 and pp 239-240, tells the story of 120 Chinese boys sent to New England in 1872 under the Chinese Educational Mission. They stayed about ten years in Americana families, and many played base ball.
The experience, as well as later Chinese participation in base ball, is treated in Joel S. Franks, "Baseball and Racism's Traveling Eye," in Baldassaro and Johnson, The American Game: Baseball and Ethnicity (Southern Illinois University Press, 2002), page 177 ff (see especially page 182). +
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Middleton's Seaason in the Sun: The Story of Connecticut's First Profefssional Baseball TeamCountry=US +
This information appears in it front matter of the author's 2003 book on the Hartford Dark Blues +
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This is a draft chapter 1 for a project that was not realized. I have misfiled it, but it will pop up.
It cites a finding by Dean Sullivan that stoolball and cricket were well-established in Louisville in about 1850. +
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This is a facsimile of an 8- page, typed account to the baseball life of Doc Adams written by his son in 1939, held in the Chadwick scrapbooks, and supplied to Protoball 12/29/2009 by Bill Ryczek. +
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This is chapter 2 of Harrison's Athletics for All: Physical Education and Athletics at Phillips Academy 1778-1978 (Phillips Academy, 1984). It describes ballplaying at the Academy from 1811 to 1878. +
This paper does not probe the earlier beginnings of Chicago baseball. It does report that as of 1860, Chicago had only 4 "private baseball clubs," despite its population of nearly 110,000. +
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This paper was presented in various stages to the Fly Creek Historical Society (2010), and the Friends of the Cooperstown Library (2011). +
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This short article traces the idea that Robert Henderson was officially commended by Congress as showing that Alexander Cartwright, not Abner Doubleday, invented baseball. The author reports that no such commendation can be found. +
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This site describes a 5-hour game played by teams of nine in October 1875. The players had send to New York for a rule book, but played before the book arrived. The score of the game was 87-17. The winning team was to receive a "quarter of beef."
This game was said to have been the first played in Utah, and likely the first west of the Mississippi. No sources for the account are given. +
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This source has not been evaluated. According to a 2005 EBay offering, it tells how "Base Ball exploded with enthusiasm across northeast Ohio in 1867." +
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This source has not been procured for evaluation. +
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This spiral-bound booklet was listed on EBay in 2004, but has not been obtained by Protoball. It was said to have a chronology from 1856 on. +
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Twenty-seven of SABR's 100 "Greatest Games" of the 1800s occurred before the first professional league appeared in 1871. Each game is described in an essay of 2 or 3 pages. Includes illustrations. +
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Up-to-date reflections on how and why Abner Doubleday and Alexander Cartwright seem to have been accorded inventor status for base ball, which, evidence increasingly shows, actually progressed by incremental evolutionary means. +
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a reprinting of the chapter "The National Game," from Charles Peverelly's 1866 self-published book, American Pastimes +