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1851 Historic Novel Puts Game of Base at New York Campus
| Salience | Noteworthy |
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| Tags | FictionFiction |
| Location | New York CityNew York City |
| City/State/Country: | New York City, NY, United States |
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| Game | BaseBase |
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| Age of Players | AdultAdult |
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| Text | "It was the hour of noon, on a fine spring day, in the year that troubles between the mother country and the colonies has seriously commenced that a party of collegians from Kiing's and Queen's College (now Columbia) were engaged in a game of base on 'the field.' "What is now the Park was then an open space of open waste grounds, denominated 'the fields,' where public meetings were held by the 'liberty boys ' of the day, . . . " One of the young men, whose turn at the bat had not come around, was standing aloof, his arms folded, and apparently absorbed in deep thought. 'Hamilton seems to be contemplative these few days past--what's the matter with him, Morris!, was the remark of one of he younger students to a senior. . . . .' |
| Sources | Henry A Buckingham, King Sears and Alexander Hamilton,' Buffalo Morning Express, November 21, 1851, Buffalo NY. A 2022 source suggests that the text is from Buckingham's newspaper serial, :Tales and Traditions of New York." (See Jean Katz, William Walcutt, Nativism and Nineteenth Century Art ,2022). |
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| Comment | John Thorn, 1/31/2023: "I think [this] is awfully good despite its fictional setting and its date of 1851." As of 2023 Edit with form to add a comment |
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1776c.4 1851 Historic Novel Puts Game of Base at New York Campus"
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