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|Year=1830
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|Year Number=3
|Headline=Union General Joseph Hooker Plays Baseball as a Boy
|Headline=Union General Joseph Hooker Plays Baseball as a Boy
|Year=1830
|Salience=2
|Salience=2
|Tags=Famous
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|Text=<p>Hooker is recalled as having been enthusiastic about baseball in about 1830. [Note: Hooker was about 16 then.] "[H]e enjoyed and was active in all boyish sorts. At baseball, then a very different game from now [1895], he was very expert; catching was his forte. He would take a ball from almost in front of the bat, so eager, active, and dexterous were his movements."</p>
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<p>Franklin Bonney, "Memoir of Joseph Hooker," <u>Springfield</u> <u>Republican</u>, May 8 1895. From Henderson text at pp. 147-148.</p>
|Country=United States
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|State=MA
|City=Hadley
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|Game=Base Ball,
|Immediacy of Report=Retrospective
|Age of Players=Youth
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|Text=<p>Hooker is recalled as having been enthusiastic about baseball in about 1830. [Note: Hooker was about 16 then.] "[H]e enjoyed and was active in all boyish sorts. At baseball, then a very different game from now [1895], he was very expert; catching was his forte. He would take a ball from almost in front of the bat, so eager, active, and dexterous were his movements."</p>
<p>Franklin Bonney, "Memoir of Joseph Hooker," <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Springfield</span> <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Republican</span>, May 8 1895. From Henderson text at pp. 147-148.</p>
<p>Hooker was born in 1814 and raised in Hadley, MA.</p>
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Hooker is recalled as having been enthusiastic about baseball in about 1830. [Note: Hooker was about 16 then.] "[H]e enjoyed and was active in all boyish sorts. At baseball, then a very different game from now [1895], he was very expert; catching was his forte. He would take a ball from almost in front of the bat, so eager, active, and dexterous were his movements."

Franklin Bonney, "Memoir of Joseph Hooker," Springfield Republican, May 8 1895. From Henderson text at pp. 147-148.

Hooker was born in 1814 and raised in Hadley, MA.

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