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Your Tax Dollars At Work/Play

Salience Peripheral
Tags Ball in the Culture, Baseball Professionalism
City/State/Country: Washington, DC, United States
Game Base Ball
Immediacy of Report Retrospective
Age of Players Adult
Text

"...a number of the players had clerkships in that department and in
fact a fairly frequently reprinted quotation calls the Second Auditor's
office was "the birthplace of baseball in Washington."

Sources

19cbb post by David Ball, Dec. 16, 2002, quoting the Washington Star, 8/14/27 and Washington Evening Star, 10/1/33. 

Comment

Creation of  phantom jobs for ballplayers was a commonplace in baseball's amateur era.

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