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|Headline=In 19th MA Camp, “Base Ball Fever Broke Out” in 1863
|Headline=In 19th MA Camp, “Base Ball Fever Broke Out” in 1863
|Text=<p>John G. B. Adams of the Nineteenth Massachusetts Regiment: “While in camp at Falmouth [VA] the base ball fever broke out. It was the old-fashioned game, where a man running the bases must be hit by the ball to be declared out. It started with the men, then the officers began to play, and finally the 19<sup>th</sup> challenged the 7<sup>th</sup> Michigan to play for sixty dollars a side. . . . The game was played and witnessed by nearly all of our division, and the 19<sup>th</sup> won. The one hundred and twenty dollars was spent for a supper . . . . It was a grand time, and all agreed that it was nicer to play <i>base </i>than <i>minié</i> [bullet] ball.”</p><p>Capt. John G. B. Adams, <u>Reminiscences of the Nineteenth Massachusetts Regiment</u> (Wright and Potter, Boston, 1899), pp 60-61. Accessed 6/8/09 on Google Books via “reminiscences nineteenth” search. The regiment arose in northern MA, near the NH border. </p>
|Text=<p>John G. B. Adams of the Nineteenth Massachusetts Regiment: “While in camp at Falmouth [VA] the base ball fever broke out. It was the old-fashioned game, where a man running the bases must be hit by the ball to be declared out. It started with the men, then the officers began to play, and finally the 19<sup>th</sup> challenged the 7<sup>th</sup> Michigan to play for sixty dollars a side. . . . The game was played and witnessed by nearly all of our division, and the 19<sup>th</sup> won. The one hundred and twenty dollars was spent for a supper . . . . It was a grand time, and all agreed that it was nicer to play <i>base </i>than <i>minié</i> [bullet] ball.”</p><p>Capt. John G. B. Adams, <u>Reminiscences of the Nineteenth Massachusetts Regiment</u> (Wright and Potter, Boston, 1899), pp 60-61. Accessed 6/8/09 on Google Books via “reminiscences nineteenth” search. The regiment arose in northern MA, near the NH border. </p>
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John G. B. Adams of the Nineteenth Massachusetts Regiment: “While in camp at Falmouth [VA] the base ball fever broke out. It was the old-fashioned game, where a man running the bases must be hit by the ball to be declared out. It started with the men, then the officers began to play, and finally the 19th challenged the 7th Michigan to play for sixty dollars a side. . . . The game was played and witnessed by nearly all of our division, and the 19th won. The one hundred and twenty dollars was spent for a supper . . . . It was a grand time, and all agreed that it was nicer to play base than minié [bullet] ball.”

Capt. John G. B. Adams, Reminiscences of the Nineteenth Massachusetts Regiment (Wright and Potter, Boston, 1899), pp 60-61. Accessed 6/8/09 on Google Books via “reminiscences nineteenth” search. The regiment arose in northern MA, near the NH border.

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