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{{Chronology Entry | {{Chronology Entry | ||
|Year=1865 | |Year=1865 | ||
|Year Number=7 | |||
|Headline=Awaiting Release, Soldier in DC Plays and Watches Base Ball | |Headline=Awaiting Release, Soldier in DC Plays and Watches Base Ball | ||
|Salience=3 | |Salience=3 | ||
|Tags=Civil War | |Tags=Civil War, Military, | ||
|Location=Washington DC, | |||
|Coordinates=38.9071923, -77.03687070000001 | |||
|State=DC | |||
|Immediacy of Report=Contemporary | |||
|Age of Players=Adult | |||
|Text=<p>“This afternoon I played ‘base ball’ for four hours a 1<sup>st</sup> baseman in a match game between the Officers of the 12<sup>th</sup> V.R.C. and the Officers of the 24<sup>th</sup> the game – after seven innings – standing in favor of the former club, the score being 53 to 23”</p> | |||
<p>Letter, October 2, 1865, from York Amos Woodward, 24<sup>th</sup> Veteran Reserves. A series of Woodward’s letters, written in October and November 1865, contain 9 references to base ball, including a report of a game between the National club of Washington and the Excelsior of Brooklyn [October 9]. Woodward appears to have been in Washington at the time. From an auction offering accessed via Google Web search on 5/19/09.</p> | |||
|External Number=121 | |||
|Reviewed=Yes | |||
|Has Supplemental Text=No | |||
|Country=United States | |||
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Tags | Civil War, MilitaryCivil War, Military |
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Text | “This afternoon I played ‘base ball’ for four hours a 1st baseman in a match game between the Officers of the 12th V.R.C. and the Officers of the 24th the game – after seven innings – standing in favor of the former club, the score being 53 to 23” Letter, October 2, 1865, from York Amos Woodward, 24th Veteran Reserves. A series of Woodward’s letters, written in October and November 1865, contain 9 references to base ball, including a report of a game between the National club of Washington and the Excelsior of Brooklyn [October 9]. Woodward appears to have been in Washington at the time. From an auction offering accessed via Google Web search on 5/19/09. |
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