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

Salience	Noteworthy
Tags	College, Famous, Harvard CollegeCollege, Famous, Harvard College
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City/State/Country:	Cambridge, MA, United States
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Age of Players	AdultAdult
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Text	[actual Holmes text 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, 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.
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Comment	Note: 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 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." Edit with form to add a comment
Query	Small Puzzle: Harvard's 19th Century playing field was "Holmes Field;" was it named for this Holmes? Harvard is in Cambridge MA. Edit with form to add a query
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1829c.1 Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Plays Ball as a Harvard student."

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