1782c.2
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Ball Played at Albany During War
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| City/State/Country: | Albany, NY, United States |
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| Text | "We passed muster [late in the war] and layed about in Albany about six weeks . . . . The officers would bee a playing at Ball on the comon, their would be an other class piching quaits, an other set a wrestling." -- Joel Shepard, a farmer in Montague MA. |
| Sources | Spear, John A., ed., "Joel Shepard Goes to War," New England Quarterly, volume 1, number 3 [July 1928], p. 344. Per Thomas L. Altherr, "A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball," reprinted in David Block, Baseball before We Knew It, ref # 38; see page 239. |
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1782c.2 Ball Played at Albany During War"
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