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Baseball's Beginnings at U Penn?
| Salience | Noteworthy |
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| Tags | CollegeCollege |
| Location | PennsylvaniaPennsylvania |
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| Text | "Baseball was first played by Penn students before the Civil War when the University was still located at its Ninth Street campus. The game was probably played casually by students in the 1850s." "Baseball is one of the oldest major sports at the University of Pennsylvania, behind only cricket and rowing. Fragmentary records of student life at Penn show that baseball was played on Penn’s Ninth Street campus at least as early as 1864, with both class and University teams in existence by 1867."
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| Sources | http://www.archives.upenn.edu/histy/features/sports/baseball/1800s/hist1.html, as accessed 1/3/2008. No reference is supplied. |
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| Comment | This is not a reference to the "Penn Tigers" BBC, which appears to be a social club of adults. Edit with form to add a comment |
| Query | Is there some way to discover the documentary basis for this report? Edit with form to add a query |
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1850s.18 Baseball's Beginnings at U Penn?"
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