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{{Chronology Entry | {{Chronology Entry | ||
|Year=1850 | |Year=1850 | ||
|Year Suffix=c | |Year Suffix=c | ||
|Year Number=17 | |||
|Headline=Patch Baseball Played in Upstate New York | |||
|Salience=2 | |Salience=2 | ||
|Text=<p>The autobiography of a Yale dropout ["because of ill health"] attributes his later recovery to "playing the old fashioned game of patch baseball." | |Game=Patch Baseball, | ||
<p>Platt, Thomas C., < | |Age of Players=Youth | ||
|Text=<p>The autobiography of a Yale dropout ["because of ill health"] attributes his later recovery to "playing the old fashioned game of patch baseball." Skip McAfee [email, 8/16/2007] points out that "patch baseball" is an early variation of baseball that uses plugging runners to put them out.</p> | |||
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|Sources=<p>Platt, Thomas C., <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Autobiography of Thomas Collier Platt</span> (B. W. Dodge, New York, 1910), page 3. Platt's home was Owego NY, about 70 miles south of Syracuse and near the Pennsylvania border. Accessed 2/10/10 via Google Books search ("patch baseball" platt).</p> | |||
|Submitted by=Richard Hershberger | |||
|Reviewed=Yes | |Reviewed=Yes | ||
| | |Has Supplemental Text=No | ||
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| Text | The autobiography of a Yale dropout ["because of ill health"] attributes his later recovery to "playing the old fashioned game of patch baseball." Skip McAfee [email, 8/16/2007] points out that "patch baseball" is an early variation of baseball that uses plugging runners to put them out.
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| Sources | Platt, Thomas C., The Autobiography of Thomas Collier Platt (B. W. Dodge, New York, 1910), page 3. Platt's home was Owego NY, about 70 miles south of Syracuse and near the Pennsylvania border. Accessed 2/10/10 via Google Books search ("patch baseball" platt). |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
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1850c.17 Patch Baseball Played in Upstate New York"
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