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Your Tax Dollars At Work/Play

Salience	Peripheral
Tags	Ball in the Culture, Baseball ProfessionalismBall in the Culture, Baseball Professionalism
Location
City/State/Country:	Washington, DC, United States
Modern Address
Game	Base BallBase Ball
Immediacy of Report	Retrospective
Age of Players	AdultAdult
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Text	"...a number of the players had clerkships in that department and in fact a fairly frequently reprinted quotation calls the Second Auditor's office was "the birthplace of baseball in Washington."
Sources	19cbb post by David Ball, Dec. 16, 2002, quoting the Washington Star, 8/14/27 and Washington Evening Star, 10/1/33.
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Comment	Creation of  phantom jobs for ballplayers was a commonplace in baseball's amateur era. Edit with form to add a comment
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Source Image	[[Image:|left|thumb]]
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Submitted by	Bob Tholkes
Submission Note	2/6/2015
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1867.9 Your Tax Dollars At Work/Play"

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