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Preppies Brought Base Ball to College Campuses?
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| Location | New EnglandNew England |
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| Text | "Apart from rowing and track, baseball was the only other intercollegiate sport to generate much interest prior to 1869. Boys from the eastern academies introduced a version of baseball to college campuses in the 1840s and 1850s." Benjamin Rader, American Sports (Prentice-Hall, 1983), page 74: no citation given. Caveat: Recent research calls this assertion into some question, as we now have many prior references to college ballplaying, including cricket and wicket. See http://retrosheet.org/Protoball/Sub.College.htm. |
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1840s.4 Preppies Brought Base Ball to College Campuses?"
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