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a booklet describing how to use the kit

contract-based factory farming system—and its negative consequences for workers

Eratosthenes

Ballists, Dead Beats, and Muffins BGB and tools that can beBaseball's spread across Illinois paralleled the sport's explosive growth in other parts of the country. Robert D. Sampson taps a wealth of archival research to transport readers to an era when an epidemic of "base ball on the brain" raged from Alton to Woodstock. Focusing on the years 1865 to 1869, Sampson offers a vivid portrait of a game where local teams and civic ambition went hand in hand and teams of paid professionals displaced gentlemen's