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French Official Sees George Washington Playing Catch "For Hours"

Salience Noteworthy
Tags Famous, Military
City/State/Country: NY, United States
Immediacy of Report Contemporary
Age of Players Adult
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"To-day he [George Washington] sometimes throws and catches the ball for whole hours with his aides-de-camp."

-- from a letter by Francois Marquis de Barbe-Marbois, September 1779.  Observed at a camp at Fishkill NY.  

Sources

Chase, E. P., ed., Our Revolutionary Forefathers: The Letters of Francois Marquis de Barbe-Marbois during his Residence in the United States as Secretary of the French Legation 1779 - 1785 (Duffield and Company, NY, 1929), p. 114. Per Thomas L. Altherr, "A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball," Nine, v. 8, no. 2, (2000); reprinted in David Block, Baseball before We Knew It; see pp. 236-237.

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Note: An online source has Washington at Fishkill in late September 1778.

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