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| | Greeley Tribune - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | In 1897, the Boston Beaneaters was one of the best teams in professional baseball, a group of colorful characters, tough, scarred, rough ballplayers who played because they loved the game. |
 | | Rowe studied the language and styles of the period, reading old Boston papers to discover how people spoke, thought and wrote about "base ball," which is how the word was spelled when the game first began. |
 | | The Beaneaters themselves became the Boston Braves, then the Milwaukee Braves, and, today, the Atlanta Braves. |
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