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Hall for men interested in playing baseball and produced great interest among cricketers in the winter off-season. Levy was instrumental in the resurgence of baseball both in this era and after
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where they dominated the competition until Mollah switched to Valley in 1930 as to even up the competition. During his time playing baseball in
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