1850's Handmade Cloth Baseball

Auction: August 2001

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1850's Handmade Cloth Baseball

1850's Handmade Cloth Baseball

These were common all over rural America is the years surrounding the Civil War, but only a handful have survived to this date. This specimen was stitched from white and blue striped cloth with a center of yarn coiled around something hard (wood? rock?). Day One in the evolution of baseball.

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