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When was ase ball contracted in daily usage to the one word aseball?

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When was ase ball contracted in daily usage to the one word aseball?

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I don’t think there was a specific date but according to Bill James’s Historical Baseball Abstract “base ball” became “baseball” in common usage sometime between 1910 and 1930, depending on the publication the word was printed in.