Item Detail
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25973
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4
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English
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The Cumorah Baseball Club : Mormon Missionaries and Baseball in South Africa
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Journal of Mormon History
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Summer 2014
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40
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3
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Mormon History Association
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93-126
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For most Latter-day Saints, "Cumorah" conjures up images of a drumlin in upstate New York where ancient battles were fought, gold plates unearthed, and modern pilgrimages performed. However, for the Saints and citizens of mid-twentieth-century South Africa, the name became associated more with the crack of a baseball bat and the cheers of sports fans than with Moroni's hiding place. The use of "Cumorah" by the founders of one of Cape Town's most influential baseball clubs in the twentieth century stemmed from a desire to reinvent the popular image of Mormons and their church in South Africa. [From the article]
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