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|Year=1788 | |||
|Year Number=2 | |||
|Headline=Noah Webster, CT Ballplayer? | |Headline=Noah Webster, CT Ballplayer? | ||
|Salience=2 | |Salience=2 | ||
|Tags=Famous | |Tags=Famous, | ||
|Text=<p>"Connecticut lexicographer and writer Noah Webster may have been referring to a baseball- type game when he wrote his journal entry for March 24-25, 1788: 'Take a long walk. | |Country=United States | ||
<p>Thomas L. Altherr, "A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball," reprinted in David Block, < | |Coordinates=41.6032207, -73.087749 | ||
|State=CT | |||
|Immediacy of Report=Contemporary | |||
|Age of Players=Adult | |||
|Text=<p>"Connecticut lexicographer and writer Noah Webster may have been referring to a baseball- type game when he wrote his journal entry for March 24-25, 1788: 'Take a long walk. Play at Nines at Mr Brandons. Very much indisposed.'"</p> | |||
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|Sources=<p>Thomas L. Altherr, "A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball," reprinted in David Block, <span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Baseball before We Knew It</span>;</span> see page 241. Altherr cites the diary as Webster, Noah, "Diary," reprinted in <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Notes on the Life of Noah Webster</span>, E. E. F Ford, ed., (privately printed, New York, 1912), page 227 of volume 1.</p> | |||
|Comment=<p><strong>Note:</strong> "Nines seems an unusual name for a ball game; do we find it elsewhere? Could he have been denoting nine-pins or nine-holes? John Thorn, in 2/3/2008, says he inclines to nine-pins as the game alluded to.</p> | |||
|Reviewed=Yes | |Reviewed=Yes | ||
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Text | "Connecticut lexicographer and writer Noah Webster may have been referring to a baseball- type game when he wrote his journal entry for March 24-25, 1788: 'Take a long walk. Play at Nines at Mr Brandons. Very much indisposed.'"
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Sources | Thomas L. Altherr, "A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball," reprinted in David Block, Baseball before We Knew It; see page 241. Altherr cites the diary as Webster, Noah, "Diary," reprinted in Notes on the Life of Noah Webster, E. E. F Ford, ed., (privately printed, New York, 1912), page 227 of volume 1. |
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Comment | Note: "Nines seems an unusual name for a ball game; do we find it elsewhere? Could he have been denoting nine-pins or nine-holes? John Thorn, in 2/3/2008, says he inclines to nine-pins as the game alluded to. Edit with form to add a comment |
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