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|Year=1836
|Headline=Yanks Burn British Runners . . . in Canton, China
|Headline=Yanks Burn British Runners . . . in Canton, China
|Year=1836
|Is in main chronology=Yes
|Is in main chronology=yes
|Text=<p>"Sometimes we raced our boats [against the English] to the baseball grounds . . . . In out-of-doors sorts the Englishman has perforce to drop his insular dignity and become democratic, and he never does it by halves. [A runner could be] pelted by the hard ball as he tried to run in, for it was then the fashion to throw at the runner, and if hit he was out for the inning.</p>
|Text=<p>"Sometimes we raced our boats [against the English] to the baseball grounds . . . . In out-of-doors sorts the Englishman has perforce to drop his insular dignity and become democratic, and he never does it by halves. [A runner could be]] pelted by the hard ball as he tried to run in, for it was then the fashion to throw at the runner, and if hit he was out for the inning.</p>
<p>Sara Forbes Hughes, ed., <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Letters and Recollections of John Murray Forbes</span> [Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1899] volume 1, page 86. Submitted by John Bowman, 7/16/2004. John adds: Forbes was a Massachusetts man, and one supposes that when he played baseball at the Round Hill school in Northampton (see item #1823.6 above) , "soaking" was then a routine aspect of the game."</p>
<p>Sara Forbes Hughes, ed., <u>Letters and Recollections of John Murray Forbes</u> [Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1899] volume 1, page 86. Submitted by John Bowman, 7/16/2004. John adds: Forbes was a Massachusetts man, and one supposes that when he played baseball at the Round Hill school in Northampton [see item #1823.6 above] , "soaking" was then a routine aspect of the game."</p>
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"Sometimes we raced our boats [against the English] to the baseball grounds . . . . In out-of-doors sorts the Englishman has perforce to drop his insular dignity and become democratic, and he never does it by halves. [A runner could be] pelted by the hard ball as he tried to run in, for it was then the fashion to throw at the runner, and if hit he was out for the inning.

Sara Forbes Hughes, ed., Letters and Recollections of John Murray Forbes [Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1899] volume 1, page 86. Submitted by John Bowman, 7/16/2004. John adds: Forbes was a Massachusetts man, and one supposes that when he played baseball at the Round Hill school in Northampton (see item #1823.6 above) , "soaking" was then a routine aspect of the game."

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