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- 1609.1 + (<p>"Soon after the new year [1609], … <p>"Soon after the new year [1609], [we] initiated a ball game played with a bat . . . . Most often we played this game on Sundays. We rolled up rags to make balls . . . Our game attracted the savages who sat around the field, delighted with this Polish sport."</p></br><p>A 1975 letter from Matthew Baranski letter to the HOF said:</p></br><p>"For your information and records, I am pleased to inform you that after much research I have discovered that baseball was introduced to America by the Poles who arrived in Jamestown in 1609. . . . Records of the University of Krakow, the oldest school of higher learning in Poland show that baseball or batball was played by the students in the 14<sup>th</sup> century and was part of the official physical culture program."</p></br><p> </p>t; century and was part of the official physical culture program."</p> <p> </p>)