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|Game Family=Baseball
|Game Family=Baseball
|Location=New York
|Location=New York
|Description=<p>A name for a form of baseball that allows the plugging of runners. We find the term used in upstate New York in about 1850.</p>
|Game Tags=1800s, US,
|Description=<p>Patch Baseball is evidently&nbsp; name for a form of baseball that allows the plugging of runners. We find the term used in upstate New York in about 1850.&nbsp; "Patching" is another word for "plugging" or "burning" baserunners.</p>
|Sources=<p><span>See Protoball Chronology item [[1850c.17]].</span><span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span>Thanks to Skip McAfee for explaining the term.</span></p>
|Sources=<p><span>See Protoball Chronology item [[1850c.17]].</span><span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span>Thanks to Skip McAfee for explaining the term.</span></p>
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Patch Baseball is evidently  name for a form of baseball that allows the plugging of runners. We find the term used in upstate New York in about 1850.  "Patching" is another word for "plugging" or "burning" baserunners.

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See Protoball Chronology item 1850c.17.  Thanks to Skip McAfee for explaining the term.

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