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|Headline=Boys Are Attracted to Sports of "Playing Ball or Goal" in Bangor ME
|Year=1820
|Year=1820
|Year Suffix=s
|Year Suffix=s
|Year Number=12
|Headline=Boys Are Attracted to Sports of "Playing Ball or Goal" in Bangor ME
|Salience=2
|Salience=2
|Location=New England
|Location=New England
|Text=<p>Paine, Albert Ware, "Auto-Biography," reprinted in Lydia Augusta Paine Carter, <u>The Discovery of a Grandmother</u> [Henry H. Carter, Newton MA, 1920], p. 240. Per Thomas L. Altherr, "A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball," reprinted in David Block, <u>Baseball Before We Knew It,</u> ref # 77. <b>Note:</b> Dean Sullivan [7/29/2004] observes that Harold Seymour puts the year of play at Bangor at 1836, citing both pages 198 and 240 of <u>The Discovery of a Grandmother.</u> Payne was born in 1812, and was not a "boy" in 1836, so this event needs further examination. This item needs to be reconciled with #1823c.4 below.</p>
|Country=United States
|Coordinates=44.8016128, -68.7712257
|State=ME
|City=Bangor
|Age of Players=Juvenile, Youth
|Text=<p>But a day seems to have elapsed since meeting with our neighboring boys, we took delight in [flying kites and prancing our horses] or engaged ourselves in the more active sports of 'playing ball' or 'goal.&nbsp; &nbsp; -- Albert Ware Paine, telling of boyhood in Bangor Maine.</p>
|Sources=<p>Paine, Albert Ware, "Auto-Biography," reprinted in Lydia Augusta Paine Carter,&nbsp;<span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Discovery of a Grandmother</span>&nbsp;(Henry H. Carter, Newton MA, 1920), p. 240. Per Thomas L. Altherr, "A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball," reprinted in David Block,&nbsp;<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Baseball before We Knew It;</span>&nbsp;see p. 245 and ref #80.&nbsp;</p>
|Query=<p><strong>Note:</strong>&nbsp;Dean Sullivan [7/29/2004] observes that Harold Seymour puts the year of play at Bangor at 1836, citing both pages 198 and 240 of&nbsp;<span>The Discovery of a Grandmother.</span>&nbsp;But Payne was born in 1812, and was not a "boy" in 1836, so this event needs further examination.</p>
<p>Also:This item needs to be reconciled with #[[1823c.4]], below.</p>
|Reviewed=Yes
|Has Supplemental Text=No
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Boys Are Attracted to Sports of "Playing Ball or Goal" in Bangor ME

Salience Noteworthy
Location New England
City/State/Country: Bangor, ME, United States
Age of Players Juvenile, Youth
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But a day seems to have elapsed since meeting with our neighboring boys, we took delight in [flying kites and prancing our horses] or engaged ourselves in the more active sports of 'playing ball' or 'goal.    -- Albert Ware Paine, telling of boyhood in Bangor Maine.

Sources

Paine, Albert Ware, "Auto-Biography," reprinted in Lydia Augusta Paine Carter, The Discovery of a Grandmother (Henry H. Carter, Newton MA, 1920), p. 240. Per Thomas L. Altherr, "A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball," reprinted in David Block, Baseball before We Knew It; see p. 245 and ref #80. 

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Note: Dean Sullivan [7/29/2004] observes that Harold Seymour puts the year of play at Bangor at 1836, citing both pages 198 and 240 of The Discovery of a Grandmother. But Payne was born in 1812, and was not a "boy" in 1836, so this event needs further examination.

Also:This item needs to be reconciled with #1823c.4, below.

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