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Daniel Webster Writes of "Playing Ball" While at Dartmouth

Salience Noteworthy
Tags College, Famous
Location New England
Age of Players Youth
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Daniel Webster, in private correspondence, writes of "playing at ball," while a student at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH.

 

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Webster, Daniel, Private Correspondence, Fletcher Webster, ed. [Little Brown, Boston 1857], volume 1, p. 66. Per Thomas L. Altherr, "A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball," reprinted in David Block, Baseball before We Knew It, p. 240 (ref #46). 

On 7/31/2005, George Thompson added that "Volume 17, page 66 of the National Edition of his Writings and Speeches is supposed to have a reference by one Hotchkiss to Webster playing ball at Dartmouth."

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Altherr [p. 27] puts this date "at the turn of the century."  Do we know where the 1797 date originated?  Was Webster at Dartmouth then?

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