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Revolutionary War Prisoner Watches Ball-Playing in NYC Area
| Salience | Noteworthy |
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| Tags | Pre-Knicks NYCPre-Knicks NYC |
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| City/State/Country: | NY, United States |
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| Text | Jabez Fitch, an officer from Connecticut, noted in March 1777, as a prisoner in British-held New York: "we lit [sic] a number of our Offrs . . . who were Zealously Engaged at playing ball . . . . His diary mentioned two other times he saw comrades playing ball. |
| Sources | Sabine, William H. W., ed., "The New York Diary of Lieutenant Jabez Fitch of the 17th (Connecticut) Regiment from August 22, 1776 to December 15, 1777 [private printing, 1954], pp. 126, 127, and 162. Per Thomas L. Altherr, "A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball," reprinted in David Block, Baseball before We Knew It; see p.237. |
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| Comment | The numbers of players seems to weaken the suggestion that "playing ball" meant hand ball in these cases. Edit with form to add a comment |
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1777.1 Revolutionary War Prisoner Watches Ball-Playing in NYC Area"
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