1810c.4
Prominent Milestones |
Misc BB Firsts |
Add a Misc BB First |
About the Chronology |
Tom Altherr Dedication |
Add a Chronology Entry |
Open Queries |
Open Numbers |
Most Aged |
Union College [Upstate NY] Students Play Baseball-Like Game
Salience | Noteworthy |
---|---|
Tags | CollegeCollege |
Location | |
City/State/Country: | Schenectady, NY, United States |
Modern Address | |
Game | |
Immediacy of Report | Retrospective |
Age of Players | YouthYouth |
Holiday | |
Notables | |
Text | "Between the college building and Green Street [in Schenectady] was a large [Union] College play-ground. Their principal game was somewhat of a rudimentary type of base-ball, a crooked stick was used as a bat and a ball made of yarn took the place of the common ball now used."
|
Sources | The [Union College] Concordiensis, Volume VI, number 8 (May 1883). page 203. Cited as a game 'on the old West College playground' in Somers, Wayne, Encyclopedia of Union College History [Union College Press, Schenectady NY, 2003], page 89. |
Warning | |
Comment | This item appears to be a reminiscence by the 90-year old William K. Fuller, who had entered Union at age 13 (c. 1806) and graduated in 1810. Edit with form to add a comment |
Query | Edit with form to add a query |
Source Image | [[Image:|left|thumb]] |
External Number | |
Submitted by | Denis Brennan |
Submission Note | facsimile provided 1/30/2018 |
Has Supplemental Text |
Comments
<comments voting="Plus" />