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Baseball Player illustration Nevada History Lecture – Frontier Baseball
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Nevada History Lecture
September 23, 2023 from 1-2:30pm

Frontier Baseball in Nevada
Bob Nylen, Curator Emeritus

Nevada newspapers reported on in the late 1860s how a sports craze was spreading across the country.  This was the new game of baseball, and it had finally reached Nevada.

Bob Nylen

During the Civil War, the game was played […]