Evansville Townball

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Game	Evansville Townball
Game Family	Fungo Fungo
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Description	per Gilbert (1910). Remembered as Town Ball, this game was a simple fungo game played in the 1850s in which a fielder who caught a hit ball on the fly or on one bounce became the fungo batter.
Sources	F. M. Gilbert, History of the City of Evansville (Pioneer Publishing, 1910), page 107.
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