Period costumes, Tent City -- and baseball -- enliven Gold Rush Days

... job, she happened to learn the role the sport played in California's history. Alexander Cartwright, a member of the New York Knickerbocker Baseball Club, traveled cross country to California in 1849. He brought the sport with him, and it quickly ...

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