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|Year=1830 | |Year=1830 | ||
|Year Suffix=s | |Year Suffix=s | ||
| | |Year Number=22 | ||
| | |Headline=Ballplaying Recurs in Abolitionist's Life -- From Age 10 to Harvard | ||
|Game=Cricket | |Salience=2 | ||
| | |Tags=College, Famous, Harvard College, | ||
|Text=<p>You may think of Thomas Wentworth Higginson [b. 1823] as a noted abolitionist, or as the mentor of Emily Dickinson, but he was also a ballplayer and sporting advocate [see also #1858.17]. | |Country=United States | ||
|Coordinates=42.3736158, -71.10973349999999 | |||
|State=MA | |||
|City=Cambridge | |||
|Game=Cricket, Wicket | |||
|Immediacy of Report=Retrospective | |||
|Text=<p>You may think of Thomas Wentworth Higginson [b. 1823] as a noted abolitionist, or as the mentor of Emily Dickinson, but he was also a ballplayer and sporting advocate [see also #1858.17]. Higginson's autobiography includes several glimpses of MA ballplaying:</p> | |||
<p>- at ten he knew many Harvard students - "their nicknames, their games, their individual haunts, we watched them at football and cricket [page 40]"</p> | <p>- at ten he knew many Harvard students - "their nicknames, their games, their individual haunts, we watched them at football and cricket [page 40]"</p> | ||
<p>- at his Cambridge school "there was perpetual playing of ball and fascinating running games [page 20]".</p> | <p>- at his Cambridge school "there was perpetual playing of ball and fascinating running games [page 20]".</p> | ||
<p>- he and his friends "played baseball and football, and a modified cricket, and on Saturdays made our way to the tenpin alleys [page 36]".</p> | <p>- he and his friends "played baseball and football, and a modified cricket, and on Saturdays made our way to the tenpin alleys [page 36]".</p> | ||
<p>- once enrolled at Harvard College [Class of 1841] himself, he used "the heavy three-cornered bats and large balls of the game we called cricket [page 60]." | <p>- once enrolled at Harvard College [Class of 1841] himself, he used "the heavy three-cornered bats and large balls of the game we called cricket [page 60]." <strong>Note:</strong> sounds a bit like wicket?</p> | ||
<p>- in his early thirties he was president of a cricket club [and a skating club and a gymnastics club] in Worcester MA. [Pages 194-195]</p> | <p>- in his early thirties he was president of a cricket club [and a skating club and a gymnastics club] in Worcester MA. [Pages 194-195]</p> | ||
<p>Source: | <p>See also #[[1858.17]]. </p> | ||
|Sources=<p>Source: Thomas Wentworth Higginson, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Cheerful Yesterdays</span> (Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1898). Per Thomas L. Altherr, "Chucking the Old Apple: Recent Discoveries of Pre-1840 North American Ball Games," <em>Base Ball</em>, Volume 2, number 1 (Spring 2008), pages 33-34 and ref #29. Accessed 11/16/2008 via Google Books search for <cheerful yesterdays>.</p> | |||
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Text | You may think of Thomas Wentworth Higginson [b. 1823] as a noted abolitionist, or as the mentor of Emily Dickinson, but he was also a ballplayer and sporting advocate [see also #1858.17]. Higginson's autobiography includes several glimpses of MA ballplaying: - at ten he knew many Harvard students - "their nicknames, their games, their individual haunts, we watched them at football and cricket [page 40]" - at his Cambridge school "there was perpetual playing of ball and fascinating running games [page 20]". - he and his friends "played baseball and football, and a modified cricket, and on Saturdays made our way to the tenpin alleys [page 36]". - once enrolled at Harvard College [Class of 1841] himself, he used "the heavy three-cornered bats and large balls of the game we called cricket [page 60]." Note: sounds a bit like wicket? - in his early thirties he was president of a cricket club [and a skating club and a gymnastics club] in Worcester MA. [Pages 194-195] See also #1858.17. |
Sources | Source: Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays (Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1898). Per Thomas L. Altherr, "Chucking the Old Apple: Recent Discoveries of Pre-1840 North American Ball Games," Base Ball, Volume 2, number 1 (Spring 2008), pages 33-34 and ref #29. Accessed 11/16/2008 via Google Books search for <cheerful yesterdays>.
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