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|Year=1858 | |Year=1858 | ||
|Year Suffix=c | |Year Suffix=c | ||
|Year Number=57 | |||
|Headline=Modern Base Ball Gets to Exeter Prep [from Doubleday's Home Town!] | |||
|Salience=2 | |Salience=2 | ||
|Location=Harvard | |Location=Harvard | ||
|Text=<p>"The present game [of baseball] was introduced by George A. Flagg, '62 [and three others and] Frank Wright, '62. | |Text=<p>"The present game [of baseball] was introduced by George A. Flagg, '62 [and three others and] Frank Wright, '62. Most enthusiastic of these early players was Mr. Flagg, who abandoned the Massachusetts style of baseball for the New York style. The ball then used was a small bag of shot wound with yarn, and could be batted much further than the present baseball. The men just named played among themselves and with town teams. Mr. Wright, of Auburn, New York, was perhaps more responsible than anyone else for bringing the game to New England."</p> | ||
<p>Laurence M. Crosbie, < | <p> </p> | ||
|Sources=<p>Laurence M. Crosbie, <span>The Phillips Exeter Academy: A History</span> (1923), page 233. Posted to the 19CBB listserve on [date?] by George Thompson. Accessible in snippet view 2/19/2010 via Google Books search (crosbie exeter flagg). </p> | |||
|Query=<p>Is c1858 a creditable guess as to when lads in the class of '62 might have begun playing at Exeter? Is a full view available online? Phillips Exeter is in Exeter NH, about 50 miles N of Boston and about 12 miles SW of Portsmouth.</p> | |||
|Reviewed=Yes | |Reviewed=Yes | ||
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Text | "The present game [of baseball] was introduced by George A. Flagg, '62 [and three others and] Frank Wright, '62. Most enthusiastic of these early players was Mr. Flagg, who abandoned the Massachusetts style of baseball for the New York style. The ball then used was a small bag of shot wound with yarn, and could be batted much further than the present baseball. The men just named played among themselves and with town teams. Mr. Wright, of Auburn, New York, was perhaps more responsible than anyone else for bringing the game to New England."
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Sources | Laurence M. Crosbie, The Phillips Exeter Academy: A History (1923), page 233. Posted to the 19CBB listserve on [date?] by George Thompson. Accessible in snippet view 2/19/2010 via Google Books search (crosbie exeter flagg). |
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Query | Is c1858 a creditable guess as to when lads in the class of '62 might have begun playing at Exeter? Is a full view available online? Phillips Exeter is in Exeter NH, about 50 miles N of Boston and about 12 miles SW of Portsmouth. Edit with form to add a query |
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