Most Wanted: Was the 'Double Eight' Style of Base Ball Cover Invented in the United States?
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Title | Was the 'Double Eight' Style of Base Ball Cover Invented in the United States? |
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Issue | The now-familiar single-seam base ball covering appears to have been introduced to base ballin about 1876 [?] Was it a new innovation, or had prior ballgames (real tennis, cricket, stoolball) already adopted the pattern in earlier days? |
Protoball Sub-area | Potential Protoball article on the evolution of the base ball |
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Status | dip-dive This subject will be explored as one element in a Protoball "dip-dive" project in 2018. Corky Gaskell has agreed to moderate this effort, and to post initial results on Protoball. |
Scale of Effort | Mini-task |
Submitted by | Corky Gaskell, Larry McCray |
Submitted on | 2018/01/01 |
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