1831.4

As His Mom Sobs Tenderly, NH Lad Rushes Out to Play Ball

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City/State/Country:	Hanover, NH, United States
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Immediacy of Report	Retrospective
Age of Players	JuvenileJuvenile
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Text	In Hanover NH, Henry Smith [later Henry Durant: he thought there were already too many Smiths] was about ten when his mother mistily told him he now had a new cousin, Pauline. "A new cousin. Huh! Was that all? And he hurtled out of the door to engage in a game of ball with [brother] William and the other boys"
Sources	Florence M. Kingsley, The Life of Henry Fowle Durant: Founder of Wellesley College (The Century Co., New York, 1924), page 28. Per Thomas L. Altherr, "Chucking the Old Apple: Recent Discoveries of Pre-1840 North American Ball Games," Base Ball, Volume 2, number 1 (Spring 2008), page 38. Incomplete access to text of the biography via Google Books search <fowle durant>. Hanover NH is in the middle of nowhere . . . well, no, it's somewhere.
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