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Sunday, October 7, 2012
Curious History: Baseball in the 1300s?
This illustration was found in the margins of a calendar in a
14th-century Flemish Book of Hours. Various historians of sport have
identified this as a version of “stool ball” or “stump ball”, which was
baseball played with only one base.
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