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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Plays Ball as a Harvard student.

Salience Noteworthy
Tags College, Famous, Harvard College
City/State/Country: Cambridge, MA, United States
Age of Players Adult
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Several sources report that Oliver Wendell Holmes playing ball at Harvard.

[actual Holmes text is still needed]

Sources

Krout, John A, Annals of American Sport (Yale University Press, New Haven, 1929), p. 115. Per Thomas L. Altherr, "A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball," reprinted in David Block, Baseball before We Knew It, p. 240, ref 49. Richard Hershberger, posting to 19CBB on 10/8/2007, found an earlier source - Caylor, O. P., "Early Baseball Days," Washington Post, April 11, 1896. John Thorn reports [email of 2/15/2008] that Holmes biographies do not mention his sporting interests. Note: We still need the original source for the famous Harvard story. Holmes graduated in 1829; the date of play is unconfirmed.

See entry #1824.6 above on Holmes' reference to prep school baseball at Phillips Academy.

Comment

We still need the original source for the famous Harvard story. Holmes graduated in 1829; the date of play as cited is unconfirmed.  The Holmes story reportedly appears in JM Ward's "Base Ball: How to Become a Player," where he says OWH told it "to the reporter of a Boston paper." (Ward page citation?)

 

 

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Small Puzzle: Harvard's 19th Century playing field was "Holmes Field;" was it named for this Holmes? Harvard is in Cambridge MA.

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