Author Robert D. Sampson spent 10 years pouring over newspaper clippings to write “Ballists, Dead Beats, and Muffins: Inside Early Baseball in Illinois.” He discovered more than 1,000 teams across the state in the 1860s, including in Peoria and Pekin.

‘A female goose came on the ground': New book examines baseball’s emergence in Illinois

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