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NH Loyalist Plays Ball in NY; Mentions "Wickett"

Salience Noteworthy
Tags Military, Pre-Knicks NYC
Location New England
City/State/Country: NY, United States
Game Wicket
Immediacy of Report Contemporary
Age of Players Adult
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The journal of Enos Stevens, a NH man serving in British forces, mentions playing ball seven times from 1778 to 1781. Only one specifies the game played in terms we know: "in the after noon played Wickett" in March of 1781. 

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C. K. Boulton, ed., "A Fragment of the Diary of Lieutenant Enos Stevens, Tory, 1777-1778," New England Quarterly v. 11, number 2 (June 1938), pages 384-385, per Thomas L. Altherr, "A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball," reprinted in David Block, Baseball before We Knew It, reference #33; see p. 337.  Tom notes that the original journal is at the Vermont Historical Society in Montpelier VT.

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