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    Baseball, Ohio (Final Part)

    (Writer's Note: On Wednesday, February 13, 2019, the Lancaster Eagle Gazette published part of a series of articles over a period of seven months about the story of the post-WWII merger and naming of the consolidation of the villages of Baltimore and Basil. A Columbus newspaper sports writer named Bob Hooey suggested the name be "Baseball." His idea was based on joining parts of Basel---Basil was a misspelling of the Swiss city, perhaps by a young boy Henry Leonard who
     

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