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Here is an interesting thought exercise. Try reversing the digits in the year you were born and think about what life would be like in that year (Tough luck if you were born in 1991). For some, you may need to consider the distant future or the distant past. Have…

With this sixth of sixteen articles by scholars of baseball’s earliest period, a picture will begin to emerge of how the game first flowered in America. (For regular readers of the Our Game blog, my own contributions will be interspersed with these excerpts from Base Ball.) …