Why the baseball diamond is a diamond

Or at least a square turned all funny. Reaction video:   / 83639955  

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Baseball roots book: https://archive.org/details/baseballb...
Top paper: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/...
Thorn's book: https://amzn.to/42gMyuB

Normally I don't link this sorta thing, but the Library of Congress has a TON of baseball stuff: https://www.loc.gov/search/?in=&q=bas...

Book about Boston games (also on Archive.org): https://amzn.to/3N1Q1sA

Important 1858 book that lays out the Mass game (how cool is it that we can get all this stuff online?!?). https://archive.org/details/manualofc...

Marlboro Game blog: https://ourgame.mlblogs.com/the-new-m...
Currier Ives blog: https://ourgame.mlblogs.com/unravelin...