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paternity - - Rounders schmounders - - Abner and Albert, the missing link - - Was Abner Graves telling the truth? - - Rules of baseball : the prequel - - How slick were the Knicks? - - In the beginning - - Stools, clubs, stobs, and jugs - - Traps and cats - - It's starting to look familiar - - Baseball before we knew it - - Early baseball bibliography : roots of the game in pre-Civil War literature - - Appendix 1. 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