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Erasmus Hall School Alum Recalls Three-Base Game with Plugging
| Salience | Noteworthy |
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| Tags | Pre-Knicks NYCPre-Knicks NYC |
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| City/State/Country: | Flatbush, NY, United States |
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| Text | On July 3, 2009, David Dyte posted the following account on the 19CBB listserve: "In 1894, the Brooklyn Eagle published an article recounting the various games played by Colonel John Oakey, a former A.D.A., when he was a child growing up in Brooklyn and Flatbush [NY]. From 1837 he attended the Erasmus Hall Academy, and told this story: 'Erasmus Hall academy had a fine play ground surrounding it. Here John Oakey and his school fellows played many a game of three base ball. The boys who played were called binders, pitchers, catchers, and outers, and in order to put a boy out it was necessary to strike him with the ball. On one occasion John Oakey threw the ball from second base and put another boy out. The boy said he did not feel the ball and therefore he had not been put out. John made up his mind that the next time he caught that chap between the bases he would not say afterward that he did not feel the ball. It was only a few days after that an opportunity occurred. John let the ball go for all he was worth and caught the boy in the back. He went down in a heap, but instantly sprang to his feet and cries out, "It didn't hit me; it didn't hit me." But John Oakey and all the boys knew better. For a week after that boy had a lame back, but he would never acknowledge that the ball did it.'" |
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1837c.12 Erasmus Hall School Alum Recalls Three-Base Game with Plugging"
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