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Originally Posted by esd10
scott I was wondering why the word base ball was spelled that way? it was my understanding that they stopped using base ball in the late 1800's.
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No, actually I have seen baseball written base ball as late as the 1930s, FWIW.
Note the use of the words Base Ball on this Philadelphia A's ticket from 1905.
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