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Game	Indoor Baseball
Game Family	Baseball Baseball
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Description	Chicago -- Evolving from an 1887 innovation in Chicago involving a broomstick as a bat and a boxing glove as the ball, indoor baseball is described in a 1929 survey as particularly popular in gymnasiums in the US mid-west in the early 20th century. The game of softball traces back to indoor play.
Sources	John Allen Krout, Annals of American Sport (Yale University Press, 1929), page 219.
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-|Description=Chicago -- Evolving from an 1887 innovation in Chicago involving a broomstick as a bat and a boxing glove as the ball, indoor baseball is described in a 1929 survey[92] as particularly popular in gymnasiums in the US mid-west in the early 20th century.  The game of softball traces back to indoor play.
+|Description=<p>Chicago -- Evolving from an 1887 innovation in Chicago involving a broomstick as a bat and a boxing glove as the ball, indoor baseball is described in a 1929 survey as particularly popular in gymnasiums in the US mid-west in the early 20th century. The game of softball traces back to indoor play.</p>
+|Sources=<p><span>John Allen Krout,&nbsp;</span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Annals of American Sport</span><span>&nbsp;</span>(Yale University Press, 1929)<span>, page 219.</span></p>
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