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Burlesque Baseball

by | Jan 14, 2016 | Uncategorized

The silver mining camp of Silver City, New Mexico, took all of three years after its founding to form its first baseball team. The Silver City Mining Life reported of the team’s 1873 formation by calling the sport “bone-breaking” and “joint-dislocati


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