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Union General Joseph Hooker Plays Baseball as a Boy
| Salience | Noteworthy |
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| Tags | FamousFamous |
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| City/State/Country: | Hadley, MA, United States |
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| Text | Hooker is recalled as having been enthusiastic about baseball in about 1830. [Note: Hooker was about 16 then.] "[H]e enjoyed and was active in all boyish sorts. At baseball, then a very different game from now [1895], he was very expert; catching was his forte. He would take a ball from almost in front of the bat, so eager, active, and dexterous were his movements." Franklin Bonney, "Memoir of Joseph Hooker," Springfield Republican, May 8 1895. From Henderson text at pp. 147-148. Hooker was born in 1814 and raised in Hadley, MA. |
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1830.3 Union General Joseph Hooker Plays Baseball as a Boy"
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