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		<title>Holiday Base Ball</title>
		<link>http://churchofbaseball.com/2011/07/03/holiday-base-ball/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jul 2011 16:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The earliest accounts of base ball playing by grown men were usually on special occasions such as the end of bringing in the fall crops, barn raising, or holiday celebrations.   The following is the best early eyewitness account of a game, in 1838, observed by a Dr. Ford in Beechville, Ontario, Canada.  The Beechville Club v. Zorras [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IGNORING HISTORY CAN HAVE PERILOUS CONSEQUENCES</title>
		<link>http://churchofbaseball.com/2011/06/29/ignoring-history-can-have-perilous-consequences/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 19:14:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[       The recent filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy by the McCourt “led” Dodgers has seeds from the past covering the coffin.  It is the latest example of short-term management decision-making; decisions based upon a complete ignorance of, or at best, disregard for the lessons that history tries to impart.  Unfortunately, very few in positions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FAIR AND BALANCED: BASEBALL&#8217;S EVERLASTING PURSUIT</title>
		<link>http://churchofbaseball.com/2011/06/26/fair-and-balanced-baseballs-everlasting-pursuit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jun 2011 16:31:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The early years of base ball (it was two words in those days) witnessed typical scores like 87-36, 94-77, etc.  The New England version of playing often required a team to score 100 runs in order to claim victory!  With no gloves for fielders and the pitcher required to toss the ball underhanded to the preferred location [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BASE BALL BECAME THE NATIONAL PASTIME IN 1856?</title>
		<link>http://churchofbaseball.com/2011/06/22/base-ball-became-the-national-pastime-in-1856/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 15:15:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Weekly newspapers were the primary disseminators of cultural, theatrical, and sporting news. There were three weeklies during the 1850s with the phrase &#8220;Spirit of the Times&#8221; as part of their masthead. As base ball emerged alongside the already established game of cricket, editors learned that base ball news sold newspapers, so conversely, newspapers pushed hard [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SOME RIVALRIES HAVE VERY DEEP ROOTS</title>
		<link>http://churchofbaseball.com/2011/06/19/some-rivalries-have-very-deep-roots/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jun 2011 14:14:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the National Association of Base Ball Players (NABBP) was formed in 1856-57, it consisted of a mere handful of greater New York City area teams.  By this time, New York City was becoming the center for the dispersal of trade, communication, wealth, and cultural influence in the United States.  This fact did not wear well on the part [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Gospel of Sport</title>
		<link>http://churchofbaseball.com/2011/06/08/the-gospel-of-sport/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 20:18:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In “The Creation of American Team Sports,” George B. Kirsch states:  “The most influential champions of the new ideology of sport were the prominent molders of public opinion in antebellum America  &#8211; namely, journalists, public officials, educators, businessmen, and ministers.  It is not surprising that the editors of the national sporting weeklies . . . [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wheaton Father</title>
		<link>http://churchofbaseball.com/2011/06/02/wheaton-father/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 17:56:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[INDULGENCE, IN MODERATION, IS ACCEPTABLE I awoke with that “originitis” itch; the desire to declare somebody “the father” cannot be suppressed.  However, I am prepared to lay a foundation for my declaration and will make it within very strict parameters. Previously, we have discussed the social problem ‘gentlemen’ had in playing base ball.  To be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are You a Member?</title>
		<link>http://churchofbaseball.com/2011/05/29/are-you-a-member/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 May 2011 17:07:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The “Church of Base Ball” is established to celebrate our great “National Pastime”.  Each of you undoubtedly has an allegiance to a team; this is good.  For the moment, this loyality may be a little league, high school, college, minor league, or professional team.  We do not want to supplant these affections – but – [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In the Beginning</title>
		<link>http://churchofbaseball.com/2011/05/25/in-the-beginning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 16:54:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“For although the game of baseball had many distant ancestors and was influenced by a variety of factors, it claimed one primary cultural midwife – the Puritans of colonial New England.  Early baseball games of varying types and with varying numbers of participants reflected basic folkways of the Puritans. . . . It has been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE COST OF THEIR TOYS</title>
		<link>http://churchofbaseball.com/2011/05/22/the-cost-of-their-toys/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 01:54:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was a mass movement from the farm to the city during the mid-19th century.  Unhealthful crowding led to a dire concern for the lack of fresh air and exercise to these new city-dwellers.  Unlike the farm, where one’s work was never done, city labor often involved shift work dictated by the clock.  This led [...]]]></description>
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