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Ballplaying Featured on 1862 Letterhead for Camp Doubleday

Salience	Peripheral
Tags	Drawing, FamousDrawing, Famous
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Immediacy of Report	Contemporary
Age of Players	AdultAdult
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Text	"Abner Doubleday has become a joke among us baseball folks. ("He didn't invent baseball; baseball invented him.") This letterhead, from 1862, may give pause even to hardened skeptics."
Sources	John Thorn, Tweet on 2/2/22.  John notes that the game depicted does not resemble base ball, or wicket, or cricket.
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Submitted by	John Thorn
Submission Note	Tweet, 2/2/22
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1862.104 Ballplaying Featured on 1862 Letterhead for Camp Doubleday"

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