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Originally Posted by oldjudge
Corey-Are they playing baseball or cricket? It almost looks like a combination of the two.
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IMO they are playing baseball under the NY rules, which supports the view of most historians that the Knickerbockers formally codified a version of the game that was already extant.
EDITED to add that period newspaper accounts of the Magnolias and the game they played confirm that it was baseball they were playing.