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{{Chronology Entry | {{Chronology Entry | ||
|Year=1779 | |||
|Year Number=4 | |||
|Headline=French Official Sees George Washington Playing Catch "For Hours" | |Headline=French Official Sees George Washington Playing Catch "For Hours" | ||
|Salience=2 | |Salience=2 | ||
|Tags=Famous | |Tags=Famous, Military, | ||
|Text=<p>Chase, E. P., ed., < | |Country=United States | ||
|Coordinates=40.7127753, -74.0059728 | |||
|State=NY | |||
|Immediacy of Report=Contemporary | |||
|Age of Players=Adult | |||
|Text=<p>"To-day he [George Washington] sometimes throws and catches the ball for whole hours with his aides-de-camp."</p> | |||
<p>-- from a letter by Francois Marquis de Barbe-Marbois, September 1779. Observed at a camp at Fishkill NY. </p> | |||
|Sources=<p>Chase, E. P., ed., <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Our Revolutionary Forefathers: The Letters of Francois Marquis de Barbe-Marbois during his Residence in the United States as Secretary of the French Legation 1779 - 1785</span> (Duffield and Company, NY, 1929), p. 114. Per Thomas L. Altherr, "A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball," <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Nine,</span> v. 8, no. 2, (2000); reprinted in David Block, <span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Baseball before We Knew It;</span> see</span> pp. 236-237.</p> | |||
|Comment=<p>Note: An online source has Washington at Fishkill in late September 1778.</p> | |||
|Reviewed=Yes | |Reviewed=Yes | ||
|Has Supplemental Text=No | |||
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| Text | "To-day he [George Washington] sometimes throws and catches the ball for whole hours with his aides-de-camp." -- from a letter by Francois Marquis de Barbe-Marbois, September 1779. Observed at a camp at Fishkill NY. |
| Sources | Chase, E. P., ed., Our Revolutionary Forefathers: The Letters of Francois Marquis de Barbe-Marbois during his Residence in the United States as Secretary of the French Legation 1779 - 1785 (Duffield and Company, NY, 1929), p. 114. Per Thomas L. Altherr, "A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball," Nine, v. 8, no. 2, (2000); reprinted in David Block, Baseball before We Knew It; see pp. 236-237. |
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| Comment | Note: An online source has Washington at Fishkill in late September 1778. Edit with form to add a comment |
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