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Future NL President Plays ball in Mohawk Valley of New York

Salience Noteworthy
Location New York State
Game Barn Ball, Old-Cat Games, American Cricket
Age of Players Juvenile, Youth
Notables Nicholas Young, National League President, 1885-1902
Text

"I was born [in 1840] in Amsterdam in the beautiful Mohawk Valley, and while I played barn ball, one old cat, and two old cat in my  early boyhood days, cricket was my favorite game, and until I enlisted in the army I never played a regular game of base ball, or the New York game as it was then called." 

 

Sources

Letter, Nicholas Young to A. G. Mills, December 2, 1902, in the Mills Commission file at the Baseball Hall of Fame.  He was resonding to the Mills Commission's call for knowledge on the origins of base ball.

Comment

Young first played base ball in 1863 his cricket friends in the Army could not find opponents to play the game.  See entry 1863.19.

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