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|Year=1811 | |||
|Year Number=3 | |||
|Headline=NY Paper Carries Notice for "English Trap Ball" at a Military Ground | |Headline=NY Paper Carries Notice for "English Trap Ball" at a Military Ground | ||
| | |Salience=2 | ||
| | |Tags=Pre-Knicks NYC, | ||
|Game=Cricket | |Country=United States | ||
| | |Coordinates=40.7127753, -74.0059728 | ||
|Text=<p>"At Dyde's Military Grounds. | |State=NY | ||
<p> | |City=New York | ||
|Game=Cricket, Trap Ball | |||
<p>< | |Immediacy of Report=Contemporary | ||
<p> | |Text=<p>"At Dyde's Military Grounds. Up the Broadway, to-morrow afternoon, September 14, the game of English Trap Ball will be played, full as amusing as Crickets and the exercise not so violent:"</p> | ||
<p>< | <p>[Three days later] "The amusements at Dyde's to-morrow, Tuesday the 17<sup>th</sup> September, will be Rifle Shooting for the prize, and English Trap Ball. The gentlemen who have promised to attend to form a club to play at Trap Ball are respectfully requested to attend."</p> | ||
<p>[And four days later] "Trap Ball, Quoits, Cricket, &c." would be played at the ground. However, more space is now given to rifle and pistol shooting contests.</p> | |||
<p> </p> | |||
|Sources=<p><em>New York Evening Post</em>, September 13, 1811, page 3 column 3. Submitted by George Thompson 8/2/2005.</p> | |||
<p><em>New York Evening Post</em>, September 16, 1811, page 3 column 3. Submitted by George Thompson, 8/2/2005.</p> | |||
<p><em>New York Evening Post,</em> September 20, 1811, page 3 column 3. Submitted by George Thompson, 8/2/2005. [This third cite is also found in Thomas L. Altherr, “A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball: Baseball and Baseball-Type Games in the Colonial Era, Revolutionary War, and Early American Republic.." <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Nine</span>, Volume 8, number 2 (2000), p. 15-49. Reprinted in David Block, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Baseball before We Knew It</span> – see page 247 and ref #90.]</p> | |||
<p> </p> | |||
|Comment=<p>Dyde's Hotel was "next door to the Park Theatre, facing the Park." W. Harrison Bayles, "Old Taverns of New York" (NYC, 1915), pp. 396-97. The "Park" referred to is presumably City Hall Park.</p> | |||
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| Salience | Noteworthy |
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| Tags | Pre-Knicks NYCPre-Knicks NYC |
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| City/State/Country: | New York, NY, United States |
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| Game | Cricket, Trap BallCricket, Trap Ball |
| Immediacy of Report | Contemporary |
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| Text | "At Dyde's Military Grounds. Up the Broadway, to-morrow afternoon, September 14, the game of English Trap Ball will be played, full as amusing as Crickets and the exercise not so violent:" [Three days later] "The amusements at Dyde's to-morrow, Tuesday the 17th September, will be Rifle Shooting for the prize, and English Trap Ball. The gentlemen who have promised to attend to form a club to play at Trap Ball are respectfully requested to attend." [And four days later] "Trap Ball, Quoits, Cricket, &c." would be played at the ground. However, more space is now given to rifle and pistol shooting contests.
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| Sources | New York Evening Post, September 13, 1811, page 3 column 3. Submitted by George Thompson 8/2/2005. New York Evening Post, September 16, 1811, page 3 column 3. Submitted by George Thompson, 8/2/2005. New York Evening Post, September 20, 1811, page 3 column 3. Submitted by George Thompson, 8/2/2005. [This third cite is also found in Thomas L. Altherr, “A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball: Baseball and Baseball-Type Games in the Colonial Era, Revolutionary War, and Early American Republic.." Nine, Volume 8, number 2 (2000), p. 15-49. Reprinted in David Block, Baseball before We Knew It – see page 247 and ref #90.]
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| Comment | Dyde's Hotel was "next door to the Park Theatre, facing the Park." W. Harrison Bayles, "Old Taverns of New York" (NYC, 1915), pp. 396-97. The "Park" referred to is presumably City Hall Park. Edit with form to add a comment |
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