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|Age of Players=Youth
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|Notables=Francis Dana Gage
|Notables=Francis Dana Gage
|Text=<p>In 1859, women's rights advocate and abolitionist, Frances Dana Barker Gage wrote a letter from St. Louis to physician friends at the Glen Haven Water Cure in New York, informing them of positive advancements in physical fitness for students at the Eagleswood School in Perth Amboy, New Jersey.&nbsp; Among the games both male and female students were playing was base ball.&nbsp; Gage concluded that she was planning to ask the principle at Dansville Seminary (in St. Louis?) to add baseball to its program for girls too.</p>
|Text=<p>In 1859, women's rights advocate and abolitionist, Frances Dana Barker Gage wrote a letter from St. Louis to physician friends at the Glen Haven Water Cure in New York, informing them of positive advancements in physical fitness for students at the Eagleswood School in Perth Amboy, New Jersey.&nbsp; Among the games both male and female students were playing was base ball.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Gage concluded that she was planning to ask the principal at Dansville Seminary (in St. Louis?) to add baseball to its program for girls too.</p>
|Sources=<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">"Muscle Looking Up," Austin, Harriet, N., Dr. and Jackson, James. C., Dr., eds., <span style="font-style: italic;">The Letter-Box</span>. Vols 1 and 2, 1858-9, (Dansville, NY: M. W. Simmons, 1859), 99.</p>
|Sources=<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;">"Muscle Looking Up," Austin, Harriet, N., Dr. and Jackson, James. C., Dr., eds., <span style="font-style: italic;">The Letter-Box</span>. Vols 1 and 2, 1858-9, (Dansville, NY: M. W. Simmons, 1859), 99.</p>
|Query=<p>Is this the first time, as far as we know, that females played by modern rules?</p>
|Submitted by=Deb Shattuck
|Submitted by=Deb Shattuck
|Submission Note=Posted 10/4/2013
|Reviewed=Yes
|Has Supplemental Text=No
|Has Supplemental Text=No
}}
}}

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Girls Play Baseball at Eagleswood School

Salience Noteworthy
Tags Females
Location Eagleswood School
City/State/Country: Perth Amboy, NJ, USA
Immediacy of Report Contemporary
Age of Players Youth
Notables Francis Dana Gage
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In 1859, women's rights advocate and abolitionist, Frances Dana Barker Gage wrote a letter from St. Louis to physician friends at the Glen Haven Water Cure in New York, informing them of positive advancements in physical fitness for students at the Eagleswood School in Perth Amboy, New Jersey.  Among the games both male and female students were playing was base ball. 

Gage concluded that she was planning to ask the principal at Dansville Seminary (in St. Louis?) to add baseball to its program for girls too.

Sources

"Muscle Looking Up," Austin, Harriet, N., Dr. and Jackson, James. C., Dr., eds., The Letter-Box. Vols 1 and 2, 1858-9, (Dansville, NY: M. W. Simmons, 1859), 99.

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Is this the first time, as far as we know, that females played by modern rules?

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Submitted by Deb Shattuck
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