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Ballplaying Featured on 1862 Letterhead for Camp Doubleday

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"Abner Doubleday has become a joke among us baseball folks. ("He didn't invent baseball; baseball invented him.") This letterhead, from 1862, may give pause even to hardened skeptics."

 

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John Thorn, Tweet on 2/2/22.  John notes that the game depicted does not resemble base ball, or wicket, or cricket.

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