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Before the Chicago Cubs: Baseball Comes to the Windy City (Adults)

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Learn how the sport of baseball spread, who played it, and how the Civil War had an effect on baseball's development.

Historian Bruce Allardice takes a look at the "National Pastime" during the 1850s and 1860s in Chicago. He focuses on how baseball spread locally, who played it, how the Civil War affected the development of the game, and how the Chicago Cubs were formed!

Bruce Allardice is a recently retired History Professor at South Suburban College as well as a baseball historian, and a member of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR).

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