It would be hard to imagine that Yankee soldiers did not teach the locals how to play the Northern version of base ball. Even in prison camps in both the north and south, games were organized as a way to give players and spectators opportunity to divest themselves of the perils and weariness of war – if even only for a few hours.
In this episode, I tell about Civil War era baseball, and wonder where letters are that tell about the game being played when battles are not being fought. Listen in!
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