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|Tags=Ball in the Culture, Civil War, Military,  
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|Location=US,
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|Game=Base Ball,
|Game=Base Ball,
|Immediacy of Report=Contemporary
|Immediacy of Report=Contemporary

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Government Promotes Base Ball

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Tags Ball in the Culture, Civil War, Military
Location US
City/State/Country: United States
Game Base Ball
Immediacy of Report Contemporary
Age of Players Adult
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"GOVERNMENT BALL GROUNDS.-- The game of base ball has lately received such an endorement (sic) at the hands of the U. S. government as will go far toward giving it permanency as the national game of ball in America. Not only have base ball matches been encouraged by the military authorities, at the various army stations, as a means of recreation, as a means of recreation and exercise for the soldiers, in hours of relaxation from active service...but the naval authorities have recently made arrangements by which our sailors can similarly enjoy a pleasureable sport and healthy exercise at the same time...Ball players are being made by the hundred i our army. The few members of clubs who happen to get into the different regiments that have emanated from the Metropolis have inoculated the whole service with the love of the game, and during last year, for the first time, we believe, that base ball matches took place in every State in the Union-- or out of it, as the case may be--this side of the Mississippi."

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Brooklyn Daily Eagle,  March 30, 1864

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