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|Text=<p>Writing in 1866, a man ("W") in Rochester NY described the game he had played "forty years since."  That game featured balls made from raveled woolen stockings and covered by a shoemaker, a softer ball - "not as hard as a brick" than the NY ball, no fixed team size, soft tosses from the pitcher who took no run-up, "tick" hitting, the bound rule, plugging, a mix of flat and round bats.  He suggests organizing a throw-back game to show 1860's youth "what grey heads can do."</p>
|Text=<p>Writing in 1866, a man ("W") in Rochester NY described the game he had played "forty years since."  That game featured balls made from raveled woolen stockings and covered by a shoemaker, a softer ball - "not as hard as a brick" than the NY ball, no fixed team size, soft tosses from the pitcher who took no run-up, "tick" hitting, the bound rule, plugging, a mix of flat and round bats.  He suggests organizing a throw-back game to show 1860's youth "what grey heads can do."</p>
<p>"W," "The Game of Base Ball in the Olden Time," <u>Rochester Evening Express</u> (July 10, 1866), page 3, column 4.  Provided by Priscilla Astifan, 2006.  To read the full text, go <a href="#app1825c_12">here</a>. <b>Note:</b> the writer does not say where he played these games, mentioning that he moved to Rochester three years before.</p>
<p>"W," "The Game of Base Ball in the Olden Time," <u>Rochester Evening Express</u> (July 10, 1866), page 3, column 4.  Provided by Priscilla Astifan, 2006.  To read the full text, go <a href="#app1825c_12">here</a>. <b>Note:</b> the writer does not say where he played these games, mentioning that he moved to Rochester three years before.</p>
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Writing in 1866, a man ("W") in Rochester NY described the game he had played "forty years since." That game featured balls made from raveled woolen stockings and covered by a shoemaker, a softer ball - "not as hard as a brick" than the NY ball, no fixed team size, soft tosses from the pitcher who took no run-up, "tick" hitting, the bound rule, plugging, a mix of flat and round bats. He suggests organizing a throw-back game to show 1860's youth "what grey heads can do."

"W," "The Game of Base Ball in the Olden Time," Rochester Evening Express (July 10, 1866), page 3, column 4. Provided by Priscilla Astifan, 2006. To read the full text, go here. Note: the writer does not say where he played these games, mentioning that he moved to Rochester three years before.

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