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|Year=1853 | |||
|Year Number=8 | |||
|Headline=Were Bats and Balls Coinage, They Were Millionaires | |Headline=Were Bats and Balls Coinage, They Were Millionaires | ||
|Salience=2 | |Salience=2 | ||
|Game=Base Ball | |Game=Base Ball | ||
|Text=<p>Several boys are having trouble raising money needed to finance a project. | |Age of Players=Juvenile | ||
|Text=<p>Several boys are having trouble raising money needed to finance a project. "If base-balls and trap-bats would have passed current, we could have gone forth as millionaires; but as it was, the total amount of floating capital [we had] was the sum of seven dollars and thirty-seven and a half cents."</p> | |||
|Sources=<p>"School-House Sketches, in <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The United States Review</span>, (Lloyd and Campbell, New York, July 1853), page 35. Provided by David Block, email of 2/27/2008.</p> | |||
|Query=<p>Would it be helpful to find what time period the 1853 author chose for the setting for this piece?</p> | |||
|Submitted by=David Block, email of 2/27/2008. | |||
|Reviewed=Yes | |Reviewed=Yes | ||
| | |Has Supplemental Text=No | ||
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| Text | Several boys are having trouble raising money needed to finance a project. "If base-balls and trap-bats would have passed current, we could have gone forth as millionaires; but as it was, the total amount of floating capital [we had] was the sum of seven dollars and thirty-seven and a half cents." |
| Sources | "School-House Sketches, in The United States Review, (Lloyd and Campbell, New York, July 1853), page 35. Provided by David Block, email of 2/27/2008. |
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| Submitted by | David Block, email of 2/27/2008. |
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1853.8 Were Bats and Balls Coinage, They Were Millionaires"
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