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NH Diarist Notes that Local Youths "Play Ball Before My Barn"
| Salience | Noteworthy |
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| City/State/Country: | Keene, NH, United States |
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| Game | Barn ball?Barn ball? |
| Immediacy of Report | Contemporary |
| Age of Players | YouthYouth |
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| Text | "Caleb Washburn, young Benjamin Hall, Tom Wells the younger and El play ball before my barn." |
| Sources | Stabler, Lois K., ed., Very Poor and of a Lo Make: The Journal of Abner Sanger (Peter E. Randall, Portsmouth NH, 1896), p. 416. Per Thomas L. Altherr, "A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball," reprinted in David Block, Baseball before We Knew It; see page 245 and ref #77. This somewhat cryptic journal entry is for April 27, 1782. |
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| Comment | The game could be barn ball, we could guess, although that game is typically described as two boys and a barn, with plugging. Edit with form to add a comment |
| Query | Like, who is El? Edit with form to add a query |
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1782.3 NH Diarist Notes that Local Youths "Play Ball Before My Barn""
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