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|Term=Three-Base Ball
|Term=Three-Base Ball
|Game Family=Baseball
|Game Family=Baseball
|Description=Craig Waff came across an 1894 reference[201] to Three-Base Ball as having been played at Erasmus Hall, a school in Brooklyn. The game, reported as being playing circa 1840, involved vigorous plugging and while its rules are not further described, its playing positions suggest base ball. Two-Old-Cat is described separately in the 1894 article.
|Description=<p>Craig Waff came across an 1894 reference to Three-Base Ball as having been played at Erasmus Hall, a school in Brooklyn. The game, reported as being playing circa 1840, involved vigorous plugging and while its rules are not further described, its playing positions suggest base ball. [[Two-Old-Cat]] is described separately in the 1894 article.</p>
|Sources=<p><span>Block,&nbsp;</span>David<em>, Baseball before We Knew It: A Search for the Roots of the Game [University&nbsp;of&nbsp;Nebraska Press, 2005].</em><span>, pages 147-148.</span></p>
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Craig Waff came across an 1894 reference to Three-Base Ball as having been played at Erasmus Hall, a school in Brooklyn. The game, reported as being playing circa 1840, involved vigorous plugging and while its rules are not further described, its playing positions suggest base ball. Two-Old-Cat is described separately in the 1894 article.

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Block, David, Baseball before We Knew It: A Search for the Roots of the Game [University of Nebraska Press, 2005]., pages 147-148.

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