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1857.32 Daybreak Club Forms in Providence RI
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"Base Ball at Providence - We have received a notification of the formation of the Aurora Base Ball Club at this place, and in accordance with their name, the members meet from 5 to 7 o'clock in the morning. They have been out seven times since March, notwithstanding the pluvious state of the atmospheric phenomena this season."
Sources:
Porter's Spirit of the Times, Saturday, May 9, 1857.
Query:
Is this item newsworthy because it is an early Providence ballclub, because it is a pioneering daybreak club, or neither?
Year
1857
1863.111 Baseball played at Rhode Island Army Hospital
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Grzyb, "Rhode Island's Civil War Hospital" (a book about the Portsmouth Grove Hospital in Portsmouth) p. 114 quotes the diary of Pvt. George Peck, 2nd Rhode Island: "Got my ankle hurt today by a bat playing ball." The book notes that ballplaying was a recreation at this hospital.
Sources:
Grzyb, "Rhode Island's Civil War Hospital" p. 114
Year
1863