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• 1609.1  + (<p>The 1609 source is Zbigniew Stefa … <p>The 1609 source is Zbigniew Stefanski, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Memorial Commercatoris</span> [A Merchant's Memoirs], (Amsterdam, 1625), as cited in David Block's <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Baseball Before We Knew It</span>, page 101. Stefanski was a skilled Polish workingman who wrote a memoir of his time in the Jamestown colony: an entry for 1609 related the Polish game of <em>pilka palantowa</em>(bat ball). Another account by a scholar reported adds that "the playfield consisted of eight bases not four, as in our present day game of baseball." If true, this would imply that the game involved running as well as batting.</p></br><p>1975 Letter:  from Matthew Baranski to the Baseball Hall ofFame, March 23, 1975.  [Found in the Origins file at the Giamatti Center.]  Matthew  Baranski himself cites <span style="text-decoration: underline;">First Poles in America1608-1958</span>, published by the Polish Falcons of America, Pittsburgh, but  unavailable online as of 7/28/09.  We have not confirmed that sighting. </p></br><p>See also David Block, "Polish Workers Play Ball at Jamestown Virginia: An Early Hint of Continental Europe's Influence on Baseball," <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Base Ball (Origins Issue)</span>, Volume 5, number 1 (Spring 2011), pp.5-9.</p></br><p> </p>ll (Origins Issue)</span>, Volume 5, number 1 (Spring 2011), pp.5-9.</p> <p> </p>)

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