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{{Chronology Entry | {{Chronology Entry | ||
|Year=1777 | |||
|Year Number=1 | |||
|Headline=Revolutionary War Prisoner Watches Ball-Playing in NYC Area | |Headline=Revolutionary War Prisoner Watches Ball-Playing in NYC Area | ||
|Salience=2 | |Salience=2 | ||
|Tags=Pre-Knicks NYC | |Tags=Pre-Knicks NYC, | ||
|Text=<p>Sabine, William H. W., ed., < | |Country=United States | ||
|Coordinates=40.7127753, -74.0059728 | |||
|State=NY | |||
|Immediacy of Report=Contemporary | |||
|Age of Players=Adult | |||
|Text=<p>Jabez Fitch, an officer from Connecticut, noted in March 1777, as a prisoner in British-held New York: "we lit [sic] a number of our Offrs . . . who were Zealously Engaged at playing ball . . . .</p> | |||
<p>His diary mentioned two other times he saw comrades playing ball.</p> | |||
|Sources=<p>Sabine, William H. W., ed., "<span>The New York Diary of Lieutenant Jabez Fitch of the 17<sup>th</sup> (Connecticut) Regiment from August 22, 1776 to December 15, 1777</span> [private printing, 1954], pp. 126, 127, and 162. Per 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 p.237.</p> | |||
|Comment=<p>The numbers of players seems to weaken the suggestion that "playing ball" meant hand ball in these cases.</p> | |||
|Reviewed=Yes | |Reviewed=Yes | ||
| | |Has Supplemental Text=No | ||
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| Text | Jabez Fitch, an officer from Connecticut, noted in March 1777, as a prisoner in British-held New York: "we lit [sic] a number of our Offrs . . . who were Zealously Engaged at playing ball . . . . His diary mentioned two other times he saw comrades playing ball. |
| Sources | Sabine, William H. W., ed., "The New York Diary of Lieutenant Jabez Fitch of the 17th (Connecticut) Regiment from August 22, 1776 to December 15, 1777 [private printing, 1954], pp. 126, 127, and 162. Per Thomas L. Altherr, "A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball," reprinted in David Block, Baseball before We Knew It; see p.237. |
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| Comment | The numbers of players seems to weaken the suggestion that "playing ball" meant hand ball in these cases. Edit with form to add a comment |
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