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John
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| Last Name
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Husman
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| Location
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Sylvania, OH
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| Regional Focus
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Ohio
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| Special Interest
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| Local-Origins Study Groups
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| Active
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Yes
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John is the author of “Ohio’s First Baseball Game; Played by Confederates and Taught to Yankees” which appeared in the spring 2008 issue of Base Ball. The match game itself, apparently played by New York rules, took place at a Civil War military prison on a Lake Erie island near Sandusky OH in August 1864. John concludes that the southern players, who were gentleman officers having connections to eastern US culture, were the ones who introduced the new game to local Ohioans.
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