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Play Ball! The Rise of Baseball as America's Pastime S1 Ep7: Baseball Grows by Hitting the RoadThe second half of the 19th century; how advancing technology offered greater access to faraway places; new avenues for baseball; how baseball's popularity continued to spread; the contributions of Jimmy Ryan and Albert Goodwill Spalding.

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Now PlayingPlay Ball! The Rise of Baseball as America's Pastime S1 Ep7: Baseball Grows by Hitting the RoadThe second half of the 19th century; how advancing technology offered greater access to faraway places; new avenues for baseball; how baseball's popularity continued to spread; the contributions of Jimmy Ryan and Albert Goodwill Spalding.0Play Ball! The Rise of Baseball as America's Pastime S1 Ep8: Sacred Ground: Baseball's Early BallparksThe history of ballparks; how ballparks were defined by their surroundings; the rise of infields and outfields; the idiosyncratic dimensions and sizes of 19th-century ballparks; the state-of-the-art architectural elements of 20th-century ballparks.