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Tom Hanks refers to Cincinnati Red Stockings 'base ball' on 'Late Show' with Colbert

Actor Tom Hanks made mention of the Cincinnati Red Stockings - the Cincinnati Base Ball club that fielded the first known openly professional team in 1869 - in a discussion on A Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Wednesday night about News of the World, a Western starring Hanks as Capt. Jefferson Kyle Kidd that is set five years after the end of the Civil War.

Tom Hanks stars Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd, a former Confederate soldier who now is a traveling storyteller in Paul Greengrass'

Here's what Hanks told Colbert about the film - set to be released on Dec. 25 - including the Cincinnati baseball reference:

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