Early baseball in Arkansas/Predecessor Game 5

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From the book "Presbyterians in the South":

"The Presbytery of Arkansas in 1836 included ballplaying as one of the worldly amusements, but this was a unique sentiment and in no wise typical"

Sources

Presbyterians in the South: 1607-1861, Ernest Trice Thompson (University of Arkansas Press), p. 312