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A list of all pages that have property "Text"Text" is a predefined property that represents text of arbitrary length and is provided by <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Special_properties">Semantic MediaWiki</a>." with value "&lt;p&gt;"Although playing ball games near the barracks was prohibited, cadets could play 'at football' near Fort Clinton or north of the large boulder neat the site of the present Library. [Benjamin] Latrobe makes curious mention of a game call 'baseball' played in this area. Unfortunately, he did not describe the game. Could it be that cadets in the 1818-1822 period played the game that Abner Doubleday may have modified later to become the present sport?"&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Pappas, George S., &lt;u&gt;To The Point: The United States Military Academy 1802 - 1902&lt;/u&gt; [Praeger, Westport Connecticut, 1993], page 145. &lt;b&gt;Note:&lt;/b&gt; Pappas evidently does not give a source for the Latrobe statement. I assume that the 1818-1822 dates correspond to Latrobe's time at West Point.&lt;/p&gt;". Since there have been only a few results, also nearby values are displayed.

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    • 1818.3  + (<p>"Although playing ball games near<p>"Although playing ball games near the barracks was prohibited, cadets could play 'at football' near Fort Clinton or north of the large boulder neat the site of the present Library. [Benjamin] Latrobe makes curious mention of a game call 'baseball' played in this area. Unfortunately, he did not describe the game. Could it be that cadets in the 1818-1822 period played the game that Abner Doubleday may have modified later to become the present sport?"</p></br><p>Pappas, George S., <u>To The Point: The United States Military Academy 1802 - 1902</u> [Praeger, Westport Connecticut, 1993], page 145. <b>Note:</b> Pappas evidently does not give a source for the Latrobe statement. I assume that the 1818-1822 dates correspond to Latrobe's time at West Point.</p>. I assume that the 1818-1822 dates correspond to Latrobe's time at West Point.</p>)