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|Year=1820
|Year=1820
|Year Number=32
|Year Number=32
|Headline=baseball in Brooklyn 1820
|Headline=Baseball in Brooklyn 1820
|Salience=3
|Salience=3
|Country=USA
|Country=United States
|Coordinates=40.6781784, -73.9441579
|State=NY
|State=NY
|City=Brooklyn
|City=Brooklyn
|Game=Base Ball,  
|Game=Base Ball,
|Immediacy of Report=Retrospective
|Immediacy of Report=Retrospective
|Age of Players=Juvenile
|Age of Players=Juvenile
|Text=<p>"<span>&nbsp;I went to school in 1820-1, to one Samuel Seabury, on Hicks street, near Poplar, and afterward in a private house at the corner of James and Front streets; then to one Lummiss, who taught in the Titus House, in Fulton street, between York and Front. I also attended Mr. Hunt's school, over George Smith's wheelwright shop in Fulton street, opposite High. Foot racing and base ball used to be favorite games in those days, and we used to go skating on Fricke's Mill Pond, at about Butler street and Third avenue."</span></p>
|Text=<p>"<span>&nbsp;I went to school in 1820-1, to one Samuel Seabury, on Hicks street, near Poplar, and afterward in a private house at the corner of James and Front streets; then to one Lummiss, who taught in the Titus House, in Fulton street, between York and Front. I also attended Mr. Hunt's school, over George Smith's wheelwright shop in Fulton street, opposite High. Foot racing and base ball used to be favorite games in those days, and we used to go skating on Fricke's Mill Pond, at about Butler street and Third avenue."</span></p>
|Sources=<p><span>from an article "School Days Recalled: By Graduates of the Old Brooklyn Districts" on October 2, 1887. 19cbb post by David Dyte, Apr. 24, 2010</span></p>
|Sources=<p><span>from an article "School Days Recalled: By Graduates of the Old Brooklyn Districts" on October 2, 1887. 19cbb post by David Dyte, Apr. 24, 2010</span></p>
|Submitted by=Bob Tholkes,  
|Submitted by=Bob Tholkes,
|Submission Note=2/19/2015
|Submission Note=2/19/2015
|Reviewed=Yes
|Has Supplemental Text=No
|Has Supplemental Text=No
|Coordinates=40.6781784, -73.9441579
}}
}}

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" I went to school in 1820-1, to one Samuel Seabury, on Hicks street, near Poplar, and afterward in a private house at the corner of James and Front streets; then to one Lummiss, who taught in the Titus House, in Fulton street, between York and Front. I also attended Mr. Hunt's school, over George Smith's wheelwright shop in Fulton street, opposite High. Foot racing and base ball used to be favorite games in those days, and we used to go skating on Fricke's Mill Pond, at about Butler street and Third avenue."

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from an article "School Days Recalled: By Graduates of the Old Brooklyn Districts" on October 2, 1887. 19cbb post by David Dyte, Apr. 24, 2010

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