Burn Ball

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Game	Burn Ball
Game Family	Baseball Baseball
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Regions	US
Eras	1800s
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Description	per Appel [1999]. Appel reports that the young Mike Kelly, growing up on Washington DC in the late 1860’s, first played Burn Ball, a form of base ball that included "plugging" or "burning" of baserunners by thrown balls.
Sources	Marty Appel, Slide Kelly Slide (Scarecrow Press, 1999), page 9.
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