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An inside look at how a Louisville Slugger is made. By the 1860s, there were almost as many types as baseball bats as there were baseballs. And like early pitchers, who made their own balls ...
The Waveland State Historic Site here in Lexington held a baseball game, but it's not the game you're used to seeing the Legends play. The game used rules from the 1860s and it looked like an old ...
“Now, mix history with baseball, and we have quite the event. It’s something that’s touched all of our lives. We hope visitors will take a trip back in time with us to the 1860s, when baseba ...
The first official (non-professional) baseball game was played in 1846, in Hoboken, N.J., between the New York Nine and the Knickerbockers. By the 1860s, baseball was commonly known as America’s ...
And the pitcher throws underhand. These are the rules of 1860s baseball, and members of the Vintage Base Ball of Central Florida team prefer to play by them today. “It’s not that we aren’t ...
But in the history of San Francisco baseball fandom, nothing compares to the late 1860s, when fans discharged loaded guns in the stands. “The methods savored of the wild and wooly West,” The ...
Heritage also is offering a circa 1860s Brooklyn Atlantics team baseball card that’s been in the same family for over 150 years. It’s being sold by a Massachusetts woman whose great-great ...