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{{Chronology Entry |Year=1732 |Year Number=1 |Headline="Struck a Ball Over the (163-foot) Weather-cock" in New York |Salience=2 |Country=United States |Coordinates=40.7127837, -74.00594130000002 |State=NY |City=New York |Game=Unknown |Immediacy of Report=Contemporary |Age of Players=Adult |Text=<p><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"> <br /> "The same Day a Gentleman in this City, for a Wager of 10l [ten pounds] struck a Ball over the Weather-Cock of the English Church, which is above 163 Feet high. He had half a Day allow'd him to perform it in, but he did it in less than half the Time."<br /> </span></p> |Sources=<p><em>American Weekly Mercury, </em>Philadelphia, July 6, 1732, page 3, column 2;</p> <p>from a series of paragraphs/sentences datelined *New-York, July 3. The preceding paragraph had begun "On Friday last."</p> |Comment=<p>Protoball doesn't know of other early references to pop-fly hitting.</p> |Query=<p>Is it fair to assume that the gentleman used a bat to propel the ball? </p> <p>Are such feats known in England?</p> <p>Is a 160-foot weather-vane plausible? That's well over 10 stories, no?</p> <p> </p> |Submitted by=George Thompson |Submission Note=19CBB posting, 9/24/2015. |Reviewed=Yes |Has Supplemental Text=Yes }} <p>1732</p>
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