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|Year=1779 | |Year=1779 | ||
|Year Number=3 | |Year Number=3 | ||
|Headline=Revolutionary War Soldier H. | |Headline=Revolutionary War Soldier H. Records Regimental Ball-Playing PA | ||
|Salience=2 | |Salience=2 | ||
|Tags=Military, | |Tags=Military, | ||
|Country= | |Country=United States | ||
|Coordinates=41.2033216, -77.19452469999999 | |Coordinates=41.2033216, -77.19452469999999 | ||
|State=PA | |State=PA | ||
|Text=<p>Brown, Lloyd, and H. Peckham, eds., <span | |Immediacy of Report=Contemporary | ||
|Age of Players=Adult | |||
|Text=<p>"In the spring of 1779, Henry Dearborn, a New Hampshire officer, was a member of the American expedition in northeast Pennsylvania, heading northwards to attack the Iroquois tribal peoples. In his journal for April 3rd, Dearborn jotted down . . . 'all the Officers of the Brigade turn'd out & Played at a game of ball the first we have had this yeare.' </p> | |||
<p>On April 17th, he wrote: 'we are oblige'd to walk 4 miles to day to find a place leavel enough to play ball.'</p> | |||
<p>Dearborn's two notations, meager as they were, suggests that the game of ball that they played was more than whimsical recreation." </p> | |||
|Sources=<p>Brown, Lloyd, and H. Peckham, eds., <span>Revolutionary War Journals of Henry Dearborn 1775 - 1783</span> Books for Libraries Press, Freeport NY, 1969 (original edition 1939), pp 149 - 150. Per Thomas L. Altherr, "A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball," reprinted in David Block,<span style="text-decoration: underline;"> Baseball before We Knew It,</span> ref # 1. </p> | |||
<p>The above account is found in Thomas L. Altherr, “There is Nothing Now Heard of, in Our Leisure Hours, But Ball, Ball, Ball,” <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture</span> 1999 (McFarland, 2000), p. 193</p> | |||
|Comment=<p>When don't know the nature of this game, nor whether it was a base-running game.</p> | |||
|Reviewed=Yes | |Reviewed=Yes | ||
|Has Supplemental Text=No | |Has Supplemental Text=No | ||
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| Text | "In the spring of 1779, Henry Dearborn, a New Hampshire officer, was a member of the American expedition in northeast Pennsylvania, heading northwards to attack the Iroquois tribal peoples. In his journal for April 3rd, Dearborn jotted down . . . 'all the Officers of the Brigade turn'd out & Played at a game of ball the first we have had this yeare.' On April 17th, he wrote: 'we are oblige'd to walk 4 miles to day to find a place leavel enough to play ball.' Dearborn's two notations, meager as they were, suggests that the game of ball that they played was more than whimsical recreation." |
| Sources | Brown, Lloyd, and H. Peckham, eds., Revolutionary War Journals of Henry Dearborn 1775 - 1783 Books for Libraries Press, Freeport NY, 1969 (original edition 1939), pp 149 - 150. Per Thomas L. Altherr, "A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball," reprinted in David Block, Baseball before We Knew It, ref # 1. The above account is found in Thomas L. Altherr, “There is Nothing Now Heard of, in Our Leisure Hours, But Ball, Ball, Ball,” The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture 1999 (McFarland, 2000), p. 193 |
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