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{{Most Wanted
|Title=Was the 'Double Eight' Style of Base Ball Cover Invented in the United States?
|Issue=<p>The now-familiar single-seam base ball covering appears to have been introduced to base ballin about 1876 [?]&nbsp; Was it a new innovation, or had prior ballgames (real tennis, cricket, stoolball) already adopted the pattern in earlier days?</p>
|Protoball Sub-area=Potential Protoball article on the evolution of the base ball
|Most Wanted Status=dip-dive
|Status Note=This subject will be explored as one element in a Protoball  '''''"dip-dive"''''' project in 2018.  Corky Gaskell has agreed to moderate this effort, and to post initial results on Protoball.
|Most Wanted Scale of Effort=Mini-task
|Submitted by=Corky Gaskell, Larry McCray, 
|Submitted on=2018/01/01
}}