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• Origins of baseball
  ...es and the field regulations. However, no written records from 1839 or the 1840s have ever been found to corroborate these claims; nor could Doubleday be in ...by historians is the direct evolution from amateur ''urban'' clubs of the 1840s and 1850s, ''not'' the pastures of the small Cooperstowns of America, to th
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• Abner Doubleday
  ...es and the field regulations. However, no written records from 1839 or the 1840s have ever been found to corroborate these claims; nor could Doubleday be qu
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• Knickerbocker Rules
  ...l. The organization for which the guidelines were drawn up was the early [[1840s]] [[New York City|New York]] ball club called the [[New York Knickerbockers
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• The National Association of Base Ball Players (1857-1870)
  ...It actually covers the earliest days of the game of base ball in the early 1840s, into the days of formal league organization and post-Civil War growth, thr
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• Baseball Origins Committee
  ...n debunked in favor of giving baseball origins in [[New York City]] in the 1840s, with [[Alexander Cartwright]] being assigned the most prominent role in la
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• Charles De Bost
  ...[[1859]]. De Bost was regarded as one of if not the best catcher of the [[1840s]]. He apparently left baseball in [[1847]] but returned in [[1850]] with th
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• Joe Leggett
  ...but moved to Brooklyn and worked for his family's grocery business in the 1840s. After this he became a firefighter. In 1859, he was caught trying to rig a
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• College baseball
  ...prevailed in New England until the "[[New York rules]]" developed in the [[1840s]] gradually became accepted. The first nine-man team game was played later
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• Arkansas Travelers
  ...in amateur ranks. Although the phrase "The Arkansas Traveler" dates to the 1840s,[https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/arkansas-traveler-505/] the bal
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