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• John Zinn, October 2013  + (<p><strong>John Zinn Digs into … <p><strong>John Zinn Digs into Early New Jersey Ballplaying</strong></p></br><p>John Zinn’s objective is to understand how the New York game came to New Jersey and then developed and expanded throughout the entire state. He has been examining close to 50 contemporary newspapers that survive as well as national publications. In the pre-war period (1855-1860) there were organized base ball clubs in only about a third of New Jersey’s 21 counties. He plans to look at other information such as the reach of the railroad to try to understand why the game did and didn’t reach the different parts of the state. He is now shifting to the 1861-1870 period.</p></br><p>John wrote the New Jersey section Baseball Founders. He is on the planning committee for the November 2014 SABR symposium on 19th century base ball in the greater New York area, including New Jersey.</p> base ball in the greater New York area, including New Jersey.</p>)

• John Zinn, October 2013  +