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|Description=<p>Craig Waff came across an 1894 reference to Three-Base Ball as having been played at Erasmus Hall, a school in Brooklyn. The game, reported as being playing circa 1840, involved vigorous plugging and while its rules are not further described, its playing positions suggest base ball. [[Two-Old-Cat]] is described separately in the 1894 article.</p>
|Description=<p>Craig Waff came across an 1894 reference to Three-Base Ball as having been played at Erasmus Hall, a school in Brooklyn. The game, reported as being playing circa 1840, involved vigorous plugging and while its rules are not further described, its playing positions suggest base ball. [[Two-Old-Cat]] is described separately in the 1894 article.</p>
|Sources=<p><span>Block,&nbsp;</span>David<em>, Baseball before We Knew It: A Search for the Roots of the Game [University&nbsp;of&nbsp;Nebraska Press, 2005].</em><span>, pages 147-148.</span></p>
|Sources=<p>Posted to the 19CBB listserve on May 13, 2007 by Craig B. Waff.&nbsp;&nbsp;Craig cites the source as &ldquo;Sports in Old Brooklyn: Colonel John Oakley Tells of the Games of His Boyhood: How Some Well-Known Men Amused Themselves in Bygone Days &ndash; Duck-on-the-Rock, Three Base Ball and Two Old Cat Good Enough for Them,&rdquo;&nbsp;<em>Brooklyn Daily Eagle</em>, Volume 54, number 292 (Sunday, October 21, 1894), page 21, columns 4-5.</p>
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Craig Waff came across an 1894 reference to Three-Base Ball as having been played at Erasmus Hall, a school in Brooklyn. The game, reported as being playing circa 1840, involved vigorous plugging and while its rules are not further described, its playing positions suggest base ball. Two-Old-Cat is described separately in the 1894 article.

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Posted to the 19CBB listserve on May 13, 2007 by Craig B. Waff.  Craig cites the source as “Sports in Old Brooklyn: Colonel John Oakley Tells of the Games of His Boyhood: How Some Well-Known Men Amused Themselves in Bygone Days – Duck-on-the-Rock, Three Base Ball and Two Old Cat Good Enough for Them,” Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Volume 54, number 292 (Sunday, October 21, 1894), page 21, columns 4-5.

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