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Baseball on the old trail

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by Jim Baker

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I wonder if this ever actually happened? Whether it did or not, it’s nice to imagine a bunch of cowboys having a pickup game out on the trail, as artist Andy Thomas did in this painting. (And is that a cowflop doing yeoman work as home plate?)

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