Clipping:The claimed invention of the figure-eight ball cover

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Date	Wednesday, November 14, 1888
Text	[a letter from one C. H. Jackson] West Brookfield, Mass., Nov. 4.--I inclose a clipping relating to base ball. I am the inventor of the base ball cover referred to. Fifty-five years ago, when a boy of ten years, my mother gave me yarn enough, of her own spinning, for a ball. Next thing was leather for a cover. I was a poor boy and couldn't buy. An old shoemaker gave me two small pieces, and said perhaps I could piece them up. My efforts resulted in the exact shape now in universal use. About twenty years ago I showed to a nephew of mine the cover of my boyhood. He was working for Harwood, the great ball maker, of Natick, Mass. Harwood adopted this cover at once, as it takes much leather and has but one seams, instead of five or six. Well, I didn't reap the fortunate, as I didn't get it patented, but no matter, I've “got there all the same.
Source	The Sporting Life
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Submitted by	Richard Hershberger
Origin	Initial Hershberger Clippings

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