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4th NY and 13th NY Play Base Ball in VA
| Salience | Peripheral |
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| Tags | Civil War, MilitaryCivil War, Military |
| Location | VirginiaVirginia |
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| Text | Over five years after the fact, the Ball Players’ Chronicle evidently dug up an old CW letter and published it: “Camp Crooke, July 20th 1862. We had a good afternoon’s sport here yesterday. The selected nine of the 4th N. Y. V. came to our camp, confident of victory, to play us a game of base ball. . . . They played a very strong game and had a tip-top pitcher and catcher, but they were outbatted , our boys doing some tall things in that line. Lieut. Fuller treated them handsomely, and they departed in good spirits, though feeling a little sore at their defeat, having hitherto beaten every other nine they have played against.” A box score of the regulation 16-11 game was included. The article also reports on an earlier match between the 13th’s right wing and left wing, and a shorter impromptu contest between the staff officers and line officers of the 13th, “the latter [game] was a rich match, full of all the attractive features of muffinism.” “Base Ball Reminiscences,” The Ball Players’ Chronicle, November 28, 1867. From the Giamatti Research Center at the Baseball Hall of Fame, Civil War folder, accessed June 2009. The 13th was evidently a three-month regiment that mustered out in September 1862. The 4th was from New York City. |
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| Comment | The source is the NYSM July 27, 1862. Famed pitcher Joe Sprague pitched for one of the teams. Edit with form to add a comment |
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| External Number | 145 |
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1862.51 4th NY and 13th NY Play Base Ball in VA"
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