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Posted By: Jason Mishelow

Owing a huge debt to David Block's work Baseball before We Knew It here are some early images of baseball when it was still only a child's sport,. More scans to follow would love to see similar examples from board members









Cover of 1848 School Book See Lower left of playground illistration






Ad for Robin Carver's Book of Sports 1834 Ball on Boston Commons



Image from ther Fairport Nine 1880 Noah Brooks Notice that one of the boy's is black- early image of integration