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|Year=1861
|Year=1861
|Headline=Lieutenant Views Ballplaying at Albany NY Barracks
|Text=<p>“As I look out of our window to the West . . . I see on the green sward, a hundred men laughing, talking, playing ball, cards and leap-frog, drilling and doing a hundred things for this or that purpose of pleasure or profit.”</p><p>From a May 5 1861 note by Lt. Willoughby Babcock, in Babcock, <u>Selections from the Letters and Diaries of Brevet-Brigadier General Willoughby Babcock of the Seventy-Fifth New York Volunteers</u>, Bulletin 2 of New York State’s War of the Rebellion Series, 1922, page 92. (Accessed in Google books, 5/29/09, via the search “Willoughby Babcock”.) . Babcock was a lieutenant in 1862 with the Third New York Volunteers. A five-page summary of his comments on military recreation has no other reference to ballplaying. He died in October 1864 of wounds inflicted in the Battle of Winchester VA. </p>
|Salience=3
|Tags=Civil War
|External Number=2
|Reviewed=Yes
|Year Number=22
|Year Number=22
|Headline=Ad Biz
|Salience=2
|Tags=Business of Baseball, Equipment,
|Location=Greater New York City,
|Country=USA
|State=NY
|City=NYC
|Modern Address=87 Fulton Street
|Game=Base Ball,
|Immediacy of Report=Contemporary
|Text=<p>"(advertisement) JOHN C. WHITING, 87 FULTON STREET, N. Y., manufacturer of BASE BALLS and Wholesale and Retail Dealer in everything appertaining to BASE BALL and CRICKET. Agent for Chicester's Improved SELF-FASTENING BASES, and the PATENT CONCAVE PLATES for Ball Shoes, which are free from all the danger, and answer all the purposes, of spikes."</p>
|Sources=<p><em>New York Sunday Mercury</em>, Dec. 8, 1861</p>
|Comment=<p>With thousands in the Greater New York City area playing the game, providers of playing grounds, playing manuals, and equipment sprang up.</p>
|Submitted by=Bob Tholkes
|Submission Note=3/10/2014
|Has Supplemental Text=No
}}
}}

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Salience Noteworthy
Tags Business of Baseball, Equipment
Location Greater New York City
City/State/Country: NYC, NY, USA
Modern Address 87 Fulton Street
Game Base Ball
Immediacy of Report Contemporary
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"(advertisement) JOHN C. WHITING, 87 FULTON STREET, N. Y., manufacturer of BASE BALLS and Wholesale and Retail Dealer in everything appertaining to BASE BALL and CRICKET. Agent for Chicester's Improved SELF-FASTENING BASES, and the PATENT CONCAVE PLATES for Ball Shoes, which are free from all the danger, and answer all the purposes, of spikes."

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New York Sunday Mercury, Dec. 8, 1861

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With thousands in the Greater New York City area playing the game, providers of playing grounds, playing manuals, and equipment sprang up.

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