Crash of Timber in the silent woods of lower New York State often is a ripping prelude to the deafening roar at a major league park when the umpire cries "Play Ball!" For from a relatively small woodland area near Cooperstown, N. Y., comes much of the selected hardwood white ash from which baseball bats are milled. Appropriately enough, the area also is the birthplace of baseball.

New York (State). Department of Commerce. Division of State Publicity · [ca. August 1954]

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