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48th NY Infantry plays on Thanksgiving

Salience Noteworthy
Tags Civil War
Game Base Ball
Immediacy of Report Contemporary
Age of Players Adult
Holiday Thanksgiving
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The 48th was a Brooklyn unit, and its baseball games often made the newspapers.

The one side ran short players, so some drummer boys were "drafted" to fill out the one nine.

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Brooklyn Times Union, Dec. 18, 1863

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