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{{Chronology Entry
|Year=1831
|Year Number=4
|Headline=As His Mom Sobs Tenderly, NH Lad Rushes Out to Play Ball
|Headline=As His Mom Sobs Tenderly, NH Lad Rushes Out to Play Ball
|Year=1831
|Salience=3
|Salience=2
|Country=United States
|Text=<p>In Hanover NH, Henry Smith [later Henry Durant - he thought there were already too many Smiths] was about ten when his mother mistily told him he now had a new cousin, Pauline. "A new cousin. Huh! Was that all? And he hurtled out of the door to engage in a game of ball with [brother] William and the other boys"</p>
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<p>Florence M. Kingsley, <u>The Life of Henry Fowle Durant: Founder of Wellesley College</u> (The Century Co., New York, 1924), page 28. Per Thomas L. Altherr, "Chucking the Old Apple: Recent Discoveries of Pre-1840 North American Ball Games," <u>Base Ball</u>, Volume 2, number 1 (Spring 2008), page 38. Incomplete access to text of the biography via Google Books search for "'fowle durant.'"  Hanover NH is in the middle of nowhere.</p>
|State=NH
|City=Hanover
|Immediacy of Report=Retrospective
|Age of Players=Juvenile
|Text=<p>In Hanover NH, Henry Smith [later Henry Durant: he thought there were already too many Smiths] was about ten when his mother mistily told him he now had a new cousin, Pauline. "A new cousin. Huh! Was that all? And he hurtled out of the door to engage in a game of ball with [brother] William and the other boys"</p>
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|Sources=<p>Florence M. Kingsley,&nbsp;<span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Life of Henry Fowle Durant: Founder of Wellesley College</span>&nbsp;(The Century Co., New York, 1924), page 28. Per Thomas L. Altherr, "Chucking the Old Apple: Recent Discoveries of Pre-1840 North American Ball Games,"&nbsp;<span>Base Ball</span>, Volume 2, number 1 (Spring 2008), page 38.</p>
<p>Incomplete access to text of the biography via Google Books search &lt;fowle durant&gt;. Hanover NH is in the middle of nowhere . . . well, no, it's somewhere.</p>
|Reviewed=Yes
|Reviewed=Yes
|Year Number=4
|Has Supplemental Text=No
}}
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As His Mom Sobs Tenderly, NH Lad Rushes Out to Play Ball

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In Hanover NH, Henry Smith [later Henry Durant: he thought there were already too many Smiths] was about ten when his mother mistily told him he now had a new cousin, Pauline. "A new cousin. Huh! Was that all? And he hurtled out of the door to engage in a game of ball with [brother] William and the other boys"

 

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Florence M. Kingsley, The Life of Henry Fowle Durant: Founder of Wellesley College (The Century Co., New York, 1924), page 28. Per Thomas L. Altherr, "Chucking the Old Apple: Recent Discoveries of Pre-1840 North American Ball Games," Base Ball, Volume 2, number 1 (Spring 2008), page 38.

Incomplete access to text of the biography via Google Books search <fowle durant>. Hanover NH is in the middle of nowhere . . . well, no, it's somewhere.

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