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|Headline=Were Bats and Balls Coinage, They Were Millionaires | |Headline=Were Bats and Balls Coinage, They Were Millionaires | ||
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|Text=<p>Several boys are having trouble raising money needed to finance a project. "If base-balls and trap-bats would have passed current, we could have gone forth as millionaires; but as it was, the total amount of floating capital [we had] was the sum of seven dollars and thirty-seven and a half cents." "School-House Sketches, in <u>The United States Review</u>, (Lloyd and Campbell, New York, July 1853), page 35. Provided by David Block, email of 2/27/2008. <b>Note:</b> Would it be helpful to learn what time period the author chose for the setting for this piece?</p> | |Text=<p>Several boys are having trouble raising money needed to finance a project. "If base-balls and trap-bats would have passed current, we could have gone forth as millionaires; but as it was, the total amount of floating capital [we had] was the sum of seven dollars and thirty-seven and a half cents." "School-House Sketches, in <u>The United States Review</u>, (Lloyd and Campbell, New York, July 1853), page 35. Provided by David Block, email of 2/27/2008. <b>Note:</b> Would it be helpful to learn what time period the author chose for the setting for this piece?</p> | ||
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| Text | Several boys are having trouble raising money needed to finance a project. "If base-balls and trap-bats would have passed current, we could have gone forth as millionaires; but as it was, the total amount of floating capital [we had] was the sum of seven dollars and thirty-seven and a half cents." "School-House Sketches, in The United States Review, (Lloyd and Campbell, New York, July 1853), page 35. Provided by David Block, email of 2/27/2008. Note: Would it be helpful to learn what time period the author chose for the setting for this piece? |
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