1859.51
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Girls Play Base Ball at Eagleswood School
| Salience | Noteworthy |
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| Tags | FemalesFemales |
| Location | Eagleswood SchoolEagleswood School |
| City/State/Country: | Perth Amboy, NJ, USA |
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| Immediacy of Report | Contemporary |
| Age of Players | YouthYouth |
| Holiday | |
| Notables | Francis Dana Gage |
| Text | In 1859, women's rights advocate and abolitionist, Frances Dana Barker Gage wrote a letter from St. Louis to physician friends at the Glen Haven Water Cure in New York, informing them of positive advancements in physical fitness for students at the Eagleswood School in Perth Amboy, New Jersey. Among the games both male and female students were playing was base ball. Gage concluded that she was planning to ask the principal at Dansville Seminary (in St. Louis?) to add baseball to its program for girls too. |
| Sources | "Muscle Looking Up," Austin, Harriet, N., Dr. and Jackson, James. C., Dr., eds., The Letter-Box. Vols 1 and 2, 1858-9, (Dansville, NY: M. W. Simmons, 1859), 99. |
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| Query | Is this the first time, as far as we know, that females played by modern rules? Edit with form to add a query |
| Source Image | [[Image:|left|thumb]] |
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| Submitted by | Deb Shattuck |
| Submission Note | Posted 10/4/2013 |
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1859.51 Girls Play Base Ball at Eagleswood School"
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