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Originally Posted by Butch7999
The assumption that the game was marketed for kids is also off base. Many simple tabletop baseball games were indeed meant
for children, but period advertisements for numbers like National-American were placed not in child-oriented publications
but in Baseball Magazine, The Sporting News, and other periodicals aimed at adults, and often showed the game being played
by well-dressed adult men as if at some gentlemen's club.
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I think those advertisements were what those men told their wives happened at the gentlemen's club.
If it wasn't actually drink and complain about wives it wouldn't really be a gentleman's club, lol.
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