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{{Chronology Entry
|Year=1803
|Year Number=1
|Headline=Ontario Diarist Reports Joining Men "Jumping and Playing Ball"
|Headline=Ontario Diarist Reports Joining Men "Jumping and Playing Ball"
|Year=1803
|Salience=2
|Salience=2
|Location=Canada
|Location=Canada
|Text=<p>[Playter, Ely], "Extracts from Ely Playter's Diary," April 13, 1803, reprinted in Edith G. Firth, ed., <u>The Town of York 1793 - 1815: A Collection of Documents of Early Toronto</u> [The Champlain Society, Toronto, 1962], p. 248. Per Thomas L. Altherr, "A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball," reprinted in David Block, <u>Baseball Before We Knew It,</u> ref # 85.</p>
|Country=Canada
|Coordinates=43.6956787, -79.4503544
|State=Ontario
|City=York
|Immediacy of Report=Contemporary
|Age of Players=Adult
|Text=<p>"I went to Town [York, Ontario] . . . walk'd out and joined a number of men jumping and playing&nbsp; Ball, perceived a Mr. Joseph Randle to be the most active."&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; -- Ely Playter, York tavernkeeper.</p>
|Sources=<p>[Playter, Ely], "Extracts from Ely Playter's Diary, April 13, 1803," reprinted in Edith G. Firth, ed.,&nbsp;<span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Town of York 1793 - 1815: A Collection of Documents of Early Toronto</span>&nbsp;(The Champlain Society, Toronto, 1962), p. 248. Per Thomas L. Altherr, "A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball," reprinted in David Block,&nbsp;<span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Baseball before We Knew It</span>,</span>&nbsp;page 247 and ref #89.</p>
|Reviewed=Yes
|Has Supplemental Text=No
}}
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Ontario Diarist Reports Joining Men "Jumping and Playing Ball"

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Age of Players Adult
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"I went to Town [York, Ontario] . . . walk'd out and joined a number of men jumping and playing  Ball, perceived a Mr. Joseph Randle to be the most active."      -- Ely Playter, York tavernkeeper.

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[Playter, Ely], "Extracts from Ely Playter's Diary, April 13, 1803," reprinted in Edith G. Firth, ed., The Town of York 1793 - 1815: A Collection of Documents of Early Toronto (The Champlain Society, Toronto, 1962), p. 248. Per Thomas L. Altherr, "A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball," reprinted in David Block, Baseball before We Knew It, page 247 and ref #89.

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