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Spelling Book Seems to Show a Fungo Game

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Text	Cobb, Lyman, Cobb's New Spelling Book, in Six Parts [New York, Caleb Bartlett], per David Block, Baseball Before We Knew It, page 206. Brock summarizes: "An engraving on the frontispiece of this book pictures a baseball scene outside of a school building. One boy is shown getting ready to fungo a baseball to two awaiting fielders, while two other boys stand around with bats in their hands."
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 |Text=<p>Cobb, Lyman, <u>Cobb's New Spelling Book, in Six Parts</u> [New York, Caleb Bartlett], per David Block, <u>Baseball Before We Knew It</u>, page 206. Brock summarizes: "An engraving on the frontispiece of this book pictures a baseball scene outside of a school building. One boy is shown getting ready to fungo a baseball to two awaiting fielders, while two other boys stand around with bats in their hands."</p>
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