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Daily Dose of Dr. Odd: Baseball Players at the Sphinx, 1889

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The Sphinx has hosted all manner of guests in its existence, from circuses to Napoleon's army using it for target practice, but I'm pretty sure that I've never seen an antique image of it with a swarm of baseball players:

Source: the New York Public Library Digital Gallery, here.

The American baseball party at the Sphinx [Spalding American Base Ball Party; Chicago vs. all America a...] (1889)

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John, I'm happy to learn that the term for a group of baseball players is a "swarm".

Posted by: Rick Hamrick | 12 August 2012 at 10:51 AM

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