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Posted By: David

In the real old days, teams were identified by their belts-- perhaps this meant that the players had to polish their belt buckles between innings.

One of the neatest baseball things I ever owned was an engraved silver belt buckle that was given as an award in 1866 to a Rockford IL Player. This shows the importance of the belt and belt buckle in the old days.

The belt buckle can be viewed (bottom picture) at the below page.
http://www.cycleback.com/gallery3.htm