E3: The Lightning-Fast Game Called Baseball
from Midnight Library of Baseball Hosted by Ben Orlando | Baseball Historian and Storyteller
If you lived in New York in the 1850s, you would have heard of a game catching on that was extremely fast-paced. Blink and you'll miss it. What was this lightning-quick game? Baseball. Hard to believe, but this was the reality at the time. And then, in 1859, in stepped a pitcher who did something that stunned the baseball world. And the game would never be the same.
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