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|Comment=<p>Camp Doubleday is described in an 1896 source as "just outside Brooklyn city limits."</p> | |Comment=<p>Camp Doubleday is described in an 1896 source as "just outside Brooklyn city limits."</p> | ||
<p>https://museum.dmna.ny.gov/unit-history/artillery/5th-heavy-artillery-regiment/prison-pens-south</p> | <p>https://museum.dmna.ny.gov/unit-history/artillery/5th-heavy-artillery-regiment/prison-pens-south</p> | ||
<p>Another source locates it in Northwest Washington DC: https://www.northamericanforts.com/East/dc.html#NW</p> | |||
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<p>David Block suggests the drawing shows Drive ball, a fungo game: see <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Baseball Before We Knew It</span> (University of Nebraska Press, 2005), page 198.</p> | <p>David Block suggests the drawing shows Drive ball, a fungo game: see <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Baseball Before We Knew It</span> (University of Nebraska Press, 2005), page 198.</p> | ||
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Ballplaying Featured on 1862 Letterhead for Camp Doubleday
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| Sources | John Thorn, Tweet on 2/2/22. John notes that the game depicted does not resemble base ball, or wicket, or cricket. | ||||
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| Comment | Camp Doubleday is described in an 1896 source as "just outside Brooklyn city limits." https://museum.dmna.ny.gov/unit-history/artillery/5th-heavy-artillery-regiment/prison-pens-south Another source locates it in Northwest Washington DC: https://www.northamericanforts.com/East/dc.html#NW
David Block suggests the drawing shows Drive ball, a fungo game: see Baseball Before We Knew It (University of Nebraska Press, 2005), page 198.
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| Submitted by | John Thorn | ||||
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1862.104 Ballplaying Featured on 1862 Letterhead for Camp Doubleday"
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