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One day 1 spied a crowd of boys and men In a vacant lot that belonged to my father and I didn't lose any time in joining the assemblage. A colony of New York state families had arrived in town a few days before that and some of the boys were playing a game of baseball, suoh a novelty in Marshalltown that the crowd had gathered to watch it. It was probably as crude a game of baseball as has ever been played In America, but it struck us sock ball players all In a heap, espe-
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