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Spiked Egg-Nog Between Innings?
| Salience | Noteworthy |
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| Location | NHNH |
| City/State/Country: | Portsmouth, NH, United States |
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| Text | "Players consumed egg-nog 'between intervals of base-ball playing' on nearby Shapleigh's Island and taunted the temperance forces." -- Tom Altherr |
| Sources | Charles W Brewster, Rambles Around Portsmouth, second series ((Portsmouth, John Melcher, 1869), pages 5-6. Per Thomas L. Altherr, “A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball: Baseball and Baseball-Type Games in the Colonial Era, Revolutionary War, and Early American Republic.." Nine, Volume 8, number 2 (2000), p. 15-49. Reprinted in David Block, Baseball before We Knew It – see page 244 and ref #68. |
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1830s.32 Spiked Egg-Nog Between Innings?"
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