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{{Chronology Entry |Year=1863 |Year Number=60 |Headline=New Bats and Balls Arrive, But 91st NY Loses Again |Salience=3 |Tags=Civil War, Military, |Location=Louisiana, |Coordinates=29.95106579999999, -90.0715323 |State=LA |City=New Orleans |Immediacy of Report=Contemporary |Age of Players=Adult |Text=<p>“Saturday, November 21, 1863. Fine and cool. The Base Ball match comes off and the 91<sup>st</sup> gets beat by two runs and the[y] come home jolly.”</p> <p>From a telephone auction offering that has this description: “Fascinating personal journal was carried on the person of 91<sup>st</sup> New York Volunteer Infantry Private Edwin Keay during the Union Army campaign of 1863 through the bayous and battlefields of Louisiana. . . Diary is perhaps most valuable, however, for its several mentions of the game of baseball, which are all but impossible to find in journals from the war . . . . ‘Thursday, December 3 . . . The new bats and balls have come up and the match takes place this afternoon . . . the 91<sup>st</sup> gets beat.’” Accessed at the Giamatti Center of the Baseball Hall of Fame [Civil War file] on June 26, 2009. The auction clip is not dated. The 91<sup>st</sup> was organized in Albany. It was garrisoned at New Orleans for much of 1863 and early 1864. <strong>Note:</strong> does the December entry imply that the Union Army supplied bats and balls to the troops? <strong>Note:</strong> It appears that other baseball-related entries are in the diary. Can we find it? A copy of a Keay diray, possibly a later one, is reportedly held as item MDMS-5433 in the Maryland Manuscript Collection [Keay spent some of 1865 stationed in Baltimore].</p> |External Number=139 |Reviewed=Yes |Has Supplemental Text=No |Country=United States }}
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