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|Term=Kitten Ball
|Term=Kitten Ball
|Game Family=Baseball
|Game Family=Baseball
|Description=An off-shoot of Indoor Baseball played early in the 20th Century.
|Location=Chicago, Minnesota
|Game Regions=US
|Game Eras=Post-1900,Derivative
|Description=<p>An off-shoot of Indoor Baseball played early in the 20th Century.  In 1920, 64 men's teams and 25 women's teams played regularly in the Twin Cities.  Authorites changed the name of the game to diamond ball in 1922.  In the 1930s, the game merged with sofball.</p>
|Sources=<p>See Paul Dickson, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Worth Book of Softball</span> (Facts on File, 1994), page 52-53.</p>
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Game Kitten Ball
Game Family Baseball Baseball
Location Chicago, Minnesota
Regions US
Eras Post-1900, Derivative
Description

An off-shoot of Indoor Baseball played early in the 20th Century.  In 1920, 64 men's teams and 25 women's teams played regularly in the Twin Cities.  Authorites changed the name of the game to diamond ball in 1922.  In the 1930s, the game merged with sofball.

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See Paul Dickson, The Worth Book of Softball (Facts on File, 1994), page 52-53.

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