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Future Historian Plays Ball in NYC Streets
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Location | New York City, NYNew York City, NY |
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Text | "During the winter my time was spent at school and at such sports as city bjoys could have. Our playground was the street and a vacant lot on he corner of Fourteenth Street and Second Avenue. Behind its high fence plastered with advertisements, we played baseball with the soft ball of that day." The author, John Bach McMaster (b. 1852), later wrote The History of the People of the United States, published in 1883.
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Sources | John Back McMaster, quoted in "Young John Bach McMaster: A Boyhood in New York City," New York History, volume 20, number 3, (July 1939), pp. 320-321. Noted in Originals. v.4, n, 11 (November 2011, page 2. |
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