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As a Lad of 9, Hawthorne is Hurt Playing Ball at School, Sees 'Several Physicians'

Salience Peripheral
Tags Famous, Hazard
City/State/Country: Salem, MA, United States
Age of Players Juvenile
Notables Nathaniel Hawthorne
Text

[A] "Young Hawthorne was hit on the leg while playing "bat and ball" on November 10, 1813 [1],  and he became lame and bedridden for a year, though several physicians could find nothing wrong with him." [2]

[B]  "Less than six weeks after Uncle Richard left Salem for good, Nathaniel injured his foot at school while playing, Ebe [his sister]  said, with a bat and ball."

 

Sources

[A]  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Hawthorne

Note [1] is attributed to 

  • Miller, Edwin Haviland. Salem Is My Dwelling Place: A Life of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1991. ISBN 0-87745-332-2

Note [2] is attributed to 

  • Mellow, James R. (1980). Nathaniel Hawthorne in His Times. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 0-395-27602-0.

[B]  Brenda Wineapple,  Hawthorne: A Life  (Random House, 2003).

Comment

As of June 2022, Protoball is not aware of accounts of ballplaying in Hawthorne's works.  For a reference to his note on 1862 ballplaying near Alexandria VA, see 1862.47

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Submitted by Bruce Weber
Submission Note Email to John Thorn, 6/7/2022



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