BASEBALL HISTORY 1840-1902. BASE BALL ORIGINS ABNER DOUBLEDAY 1839 LEGEND: BASEBALL AS RURAL PAST TIME IN NEW YORK STATE. CRICKETT, ROUNDERS, STICK-BALL.
1850 Harriet Tubman makes at least 19 clandestine trips to the South to help slaves escape to freedom. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter examines.
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