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Posted By: ramram

Worth a look for discussion purposes. Very unlikely that it's baseball. As with any early image, it either has to have absolute proof in the image (a baseball or a bat) or have solid provenance. No rock solid baseball dags have come to light yet. Even the Cartwright dag is arguable as to whether the image contains other Knickerbocker players along with Cartwright. The Piersall image is questionable as well. No baseball equipment in the image. The "uniforms" could just be fireman, or similar, parade uniforms. We just don't have solid proof.

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