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True Comics #79 (1949)

Parents' Magazine Press · 1949 · 36 pages

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Contains 6 stories
How Baseball Began
2 pp · non-fiction; history; sports

This engaging 1949 account traces how baseball evolved from the chaotic English sports of Rounders and Cricket into America's organized pastime. The story presents the official version of the game's birth: how Abner Doubleday laid out the first diamond in Cooperstown, New York in 1839, establishing the positions, bases, and rules that early baseball clubs would adopt. It's a straightforward, illustrated look at how one man's innovation transformed a messy free-for-all into the structured sport we know today.

William Phips: Sunken Millions
8 pp · biography
Bob Mathias: The World's Greatest Athlete
5 pp · biography
Zachary Taylor: Rough and Ready
3 pp · biography
Ralph J. Bunche: United Nations Peacemaker
6 pp · biography
Black Magic
6 pp · non-fiction

A young boy named Bob thinks coal mining is just hard labor with pickaxes until his father takes him on a tour of a modern mine, revealing an underground world powered by electricity, conveyor belts, and cutting machines that transform the industry through sheer ingenuity. As they descend into the depths—meeting safety inspectors, learning about ventilation systems, and watching mechanical loaders work—Bob discovers that coal is far more than fuel for heat. By the time his father explains how coal derivatives create everything from nylon to aspirin, Bob's skepticism transforms into genuine wonder at what he calls "Black Magic."

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