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|Year=1713
|Year Number=1
|Headline=Boston Magistrate Finds Trap Ball Clogging a Gutter
|Headline=Boston Magistrate Finds Trap Ball Clogging a Gutter
|Year=1713
|Salience=2
|Salience=2
|Tags=Famous
|Tags=Famous,
|Text=<p>"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."</p>
|Country=United States
<p>Thomas, M. H., ed., <u>The Diary of Samuel Sewell 1674 - 1729</u>, 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, <u>Baseball Before We Knew It,</u> ref # 18. Sewall is known as the "Salem Witch Judge."</p>
|Coordinates=42.3600825, -71.0588801
|State=MA
|City=Boston
|Immediacy of Report=Contemporary
|Text=<p>"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."</p>
<p>&nbsp;Diarist Samuel Sewall (1652-1730)is known as a Salem Witch Judge.&nbsp; He later apologized.</p>
|Sources=<p>Thomas, M. H., ed.,&nbsp;<span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Diary of Samuel Sewel</span>l<span style="text-decoration: underline;"> 1674 - 1729</span></span>, 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,&nbsp;<span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Baseball Before We Knew It</span>,</span>&nbsp;ref # 18.</p>
|Comment=<p>Trap ball is not believed to be a baserunning game.</p>
|Reviewed=Yes
|Has Supplemental Text=No
}}
}}

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Boston Magistrate Finds Trap Ball Clogging a Gutter

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City/State/Country: Boston, MA, United States
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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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