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• Donkey Baseball  + (<p class="p1">"Several entrepreneurs … <p class="p1">"Several entrepreneurs set up businesses that toured the country in the 1930s, with a truckload of trained donkeys, staging games for a fee. Service clubs, churches and civic groups would hire the companies and offer the public a chance to see local notables attempt to play baseball mounted on the quadrupeds. The profits from the show would go to their charitable and civic projects.</p></br><p class="p1">"Typically, the game would be a contest between the members of a service club or a church group against a sports team or another civic group. Invariably, the players were well known in the community, and often some of its leaders. The public found great amusement in watching the players’ inept attempts to guide the donkeys. They were often tossed head over heels to the ground, or otherwise outsmarted by their stubborn mounts."</p></br><p class="p1">Steven Thorning, <em>Donkey Baseball Was Popular it the mid-20th Century</em>, November 26, 2010; accessed 10/24/2020 via a search for <thorning donkey baseball>.</p></br><p> </p></br><p>The May 2019 Bossier (Louisiana?) site above adds that, based on a 1934 news article, fielders were allowed to dismount to retrieve hit balls, as long that they held on to the beast's reins. </p>lowed to dismount to retrieve hit balls, as long that they held on to the beast's reins. </p>)

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