Burn Ball

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Game	Burn Ball
Game Family	Baseball Baseball
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Description	per Appel [1999].[35] Appel reports that the young Mike Kelly, growing up on Washington DC in the late 1860’s, first played Burn Ball, a form of base ball that included plugging or burning.
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