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Touching the Origins of Baseball

By Dan Gorenstein on Tuesday, August 8, 2006.

Baseball may be the American pasttime but multi-million dollar contracts and players on steroids have left many nostalgic for the baseball of a simpler time. For some, turning back the clock 20 years would be enough. But around the country, there's a small contingent of fans who want to go further. They want to go back to baseball's roughest, most unvarnished days. They want to play baseball the way it was played in the 1800's.

New Hampshire Public Radio's Dan Gorenstein traveled to Nashua to see vintage baseball in action.

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