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|Text=<p>"[March 1837, New Haven CT]  It is about time now for playing ball, and the whole green is covered with students engaged in that fine game: for my part, I could never made a ball player.  I can't see where the ball is coming soon enough to put the ball-club in its way."</p>
|Text=<p>"[March 1837, New Haven CT]  It is about time now for playing ball, and the whole green is covered with students engaged in that fine game: for my part, I could never made a ball player.  I can't see where the ball is coming soon enough to put the ball-club in its way."</p>
<p>Whitney, Josiah D., letter to his sister, March 1837, reprinted in E. T. Brewster, <u>Life and Letters of Josiah Dwight Whitney</u> [Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1909.  Per Thomas L. Altherr, "A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball," reprinted in David Block, <u>Baseball Before We Knew It,</u> ref # 50.</p>
<p>Whitney, Josiah D., letter to his sister, March 1837, reprinted in E. T. Brewster, <u>Life and Letters of Josiah Dwight Whitney</u> [Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1909.  Per Thomas L. Altherr, "A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball," reprinted in David Block, <u>Baseball Before We Knew It,</u> ref # 50.</p>
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"[March 1837, New Haven CT] It is about time now for playing ball, and the whole green is covered with students engaged in that fine game: for my part, I could never made a ball player. I can't see where the ball is coming soon enough to put the ball-club in its way."

Whitney, Josiah D., letter to his sister, March 1837, reprinted in E. T. Brewster, Life and Letters of Josiah Dwight Whitney [Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1909. Per Thomas L. Altherr, "A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball," reprinted in David Block, Baseball Before We Knew It, ref # 50.

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