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Boston Merchant Recalls "Playing Ball on the Common Before Breakfast"
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City/State/Country: | Boston, MA, United States |
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Text | " [Five of us] were playing ball on the common before breakfast: and the ball fell into a hole where one of the booth's stakes had been driven the day before . . . putting the hand down something jingled and we found several dollars in silver . . . We were small boys then all of us, and I was the youngest." -- Jonathan Mason |
Sources | Mason, Jonathan, "Recollections of a Septuagenarian," Downs Special Collection, Winterthur Library [Winterthur, Delaware], Document 30, volume 1, pp. 20 - 21. Per Thomas L. Altherr, "A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball," reprinted in David Block, Baseball Before We Knew It, page 246 and ref # 85. |
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1790s.2 Boston Merchant Recalls "Playing Ball on the Common Before Breakfast""
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