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Subject:
Baseball Anniversary
From:
"Henry B. Crawford" <[log in to unmask]>
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Date:
Wed, 19 Jun 1996 08:55:07 -0600
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Congratulations baseball.  You're 150 today.

The firat real baseball game was played on June 19, 1846 at the Elysian
(a-LEES-ien) Fields near (now in) Hoboken, NJ.  Forget that Abner Doubleday
myth.  This is the real story.

The New York Nickerbocker Base Ball Club, which devised the early rules,
played a local cricket team and lost 23-1.

Happy Birthday Baseball!!

HBC
DHCF (Die Hard Cubs Fan)

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