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1869 Red Stockings: Who were the first professional baseball team?
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Uncle Mike's Musings: A Yankees Blog and More: November 6, 1869: The First Game
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Origins of Baseball – SABR's Baseball Cards Research Committee
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Blood and Base Ball, Part 5, by John Thorn
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1869 Red Stockings Pavilion to be Dedicated Saturday
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Charlie Gould key to Red Stockings' record run
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Chapter 2 The Berlin Years 1884–1903 in: Alfred Hermann Fried
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1997.2.2611 - Newsletter Santa Clara County Parks Archives
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Season-long tribute planned to pioneering 1869 Red Stockings
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Trips by the 1869 Cincinnati team made the game famous
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The Origins of the Historical Society
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Cincinnati Red Stockings - Wikipedia
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Season-long tribute planned to pioneering 1869 Red Stockings
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On this day in history, March 15, 1869, Cincinnati Red Stockings become first professional baseball team
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Reds open new 1869 Red Stockings Pavilion