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Boston Magistrate Finds Trap Ball Clogging a Gutter

Salience Noteworthy
Tags Famous
City/State/Country: Boston, MA, United States
Immediacy of Report Contemporary
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"The Rain-water grievously runs into my son Joseph's Chamer . . . . I went on the Roof, and found the Spout next Slater's stopped . . . . Boston went up . . . came down a Spit, and clear'd the Leaden-throat, by thrusting out a Trap-Ball that stuck there."

 Diarist Samuel Sewall (1652-1730)is known as a Salem Witch Judge.  He later apologized.

Sources

Thomas, M. H., ed., The Diary of Samuel Sewell 1674 - 1729, Volume II, 1710 - 1729 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1973), p. 718. Thomas L. Altherr, "A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball," reprinted in David Block, Baseball Before We Knew It, ref # 18.

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Trap ball is not believed to be a baserunning game.

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