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Latest revision as of 18:58, 14 October 2015
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About the Chronology |
Tom Altherr Dedication |
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NY Game Shown to "Show Me" State of MO
Salience | Noteworthy |
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Location | MissouriMissouri |
City/State/Country: | Independence, MO, United States |
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Game | Base BallBase Ball |
Immediacy of Report | Contemporary |
Age of Players | AdultAdult |
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Text | "Indigenous peoples west of the Mississippi may not have seen the game until 1849 when Alexander Cartwright, near Independence, Missouri, noted baseball play in his April 23rd diary entry: 'During the past week we have passed the time in fixing wagon covers . . . etc., varied by hunting and fishing and playing baseball [sic]. It is comical to see the mountain men and Indians playing the new game. I have a ball with me that we used back home.'"
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Sources | Altherr, Thomas L., "North American Indigenous People and Baseball: 'The One Single Thing the White Man Has Done Right,'" in Altherr, ed., Above the Fruited Plain: Baseball in the Rocky Mountain West, SABR National Convention Publication, 2003, page 20. |
Warning | Some scholars have expressed doubt about the authenticity of this diary entry, which differs from an earlier type-script version. |
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Query | Is Tom saying that there were no prior safe-haven ball games [cricket, town ball, wicket] out west, or just that the NY game hadn't arrived until 1849? Edit with form to add a query |
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