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|Headline=Doctor in DE Recalls His "Youthfull Folley": Includes Ball-playing
|Year=1790
|Year=1790
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|Year Number=1
|Headline=Doctor in DE Recalls His "Youthfull Folley": Includes Ball-playing
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|Text=<p>Hancock, Harold B., ed., "William Morgan's Autobiography and Diary: Life in Sussex County, 1780 - 1857," <u>Delaware History</u>, volume 19, number 1 [Spring/Summer 1980], pp. 43 - 44. Per Thomas L. Altherr, "A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball," reprinted in David Block, <u>Baseball Before We Knew It,</u> ref # 80.</p>
|Country=United States
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|State=DE
|City=Cannon's Ferry
|Age of Players=Youth
|Text=<p>"My sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth yeares were spent in youthfull folley.&nbsp; Fidling, frolicking, ball playing and hunting . . . .&nbsp; These are called inocent amusements and were not caried very far by me."&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; -- Future Doctor William Morgan.</p>
|Sources=<p>Hancock, Harold B., ed., "William Morgan's Autobiography and Diary: Life in Sussex County, 1780 - 1857,"&nbsp;<span>Delaware History</span>, volume 19, number 1 [Spring/Summer 1980], pp. 43 - 44. Per Thomas L. Altherr, "A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball," reprinted in David Block,&nbsp;<span>Baseball Before We Knew It,</span>&nbsp;page 246 and ref # 84.</p>
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Doctor in DE Recalls His "Youthfull Folley": Includes Ball-playing

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"My sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth yeares were spent in youthfull folley.  Fidling, frolicking, ball playing and hunting . . . .  These are called inocent amusements and were not caried very far by me."      -- Future Doctor William Morgan.

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Hancock, Harold B., ed., "William Morgan's Autobiography and Diary: Life in Sussex County, 1780 - 1857," Delaware History, volume 19, number 1 [Spring/Summer 1980], pp. 43 - 44. Per Thomas L. Altherr, "A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball," reprinted in David Block, Baseball Before We Knew It, page 246 and ref # 84.

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