Clipping:An early muffin match

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Date Saturday, July 7, 1860
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There are a class of ball players connected with our leading clubs in this country, who are known among the initiated as the “Muffins,” their peculiar style of play being decidedly of the muffy order. As a general thing they are excluded from play in any regular matches, but every now and then there are instances of very good play shown by the muffins, and where such occur those guilty of such un-muffin like conduct are excluded from the ranks, and placed in 3d and 2d nines, according to the skill they have shown. On the 25th ult., two muffin nines of the [Excelsior and Putnam] clubs had a match together...

Source New York Clipper
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Submitted by Richard Hershberger
Origin Initial Hershberger Clippings

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