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To: justiceseeker93

In Hartford every year they play a few teams in what is know as Base Ball. It is played with period rules, uniforms and equipment. It’s fun, sporting and a good up close look at what might have been


99 posted on 06/11/2011 7:13:25 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (Somewhere in Kenya, a village is missing an idiot)
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I guess you mean "Base Ball" of the 1800s. I don't advocate playing that game, but the major league game of the 1950s and the early 1960s would be just fine.

In the last eight team league, the National League of 1961, every team had at least one future Hall of Fame player, for a total of twenty, not including those who made only brief appearances. (average 2 1/2 per team). With all the dilution of talent today, I'd venture a guess that you wouldn't average one future Hall of Fame player per team, even with diluted standards for election to the Hall of Fame.

100 posted on 06/11/2011 7:31:11 PM PDT by justiceseeker93
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