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• 1850s.58  + (<h3 class="post-title entry-title">" … <h3 class="post-title entry-title">"The Summer of Old-Fashioned Base Ball</h3></br><div class="post-header"> </div></br><div id="post-body-6483199015792047003" class="post-body entry-content">While the truth about 19th century base ball is often hard to pin down, it is pretty much universally acknowledged that the New York game enjoyed major growth immediately after the Civil War.  That was certainly the case throughout New Jersey where in 1860 [modern] base ball was pretty much limited to only a third of the state's 21 counties, but by 1870 every county had at least one base ball club.  A similar pattern played out in the city of Paterson, but with a major difference that came at the height of the post war expansion.  Initially, given the city's population and location, base ball got off to a slow start in Paterson as the first documented match (between a social and a militia organization) wasn't played until late 1857 and the first base ball clubs weren't mentioned in the media until 1860, far behind the experience of comparable [NJ]municipalities."</div></br><div class="post-body entry-content"> </div></br><div class="post-body entry-content">John Zinn, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">A Manly</span> Game blog entry for October 2014, at URL cited above.</div></br><div class="post-body entry-content"> </div></br><div class="post-body entry-content">More observations for John's 1867 throwback game finds are found in <em>Supplementary Text, </em> below.</div>ohn's 1867 throwback game finds are found in <em>Supplementary Text, </em> below.</div>)

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