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Lincoln and Baseball: The Presidential Years
| Salience | Peripheral |
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| Tags | Ball in the Culture, FamousBall in the Culture, Famous |
| Location | Washington DCWashington DC |
| City/State/Country: | Washington, DC, United States |
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| Game | Town Ball, Base BallTown Ball, Base Ball |
| Immediacy of Report | Retrospective |
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| Notables | Abraham Lincoln |
| Text | [A] "We boys, for hours at a time, played "town ball" [at my grandfather's estate in Silver Spring, MD] on the vast lawn, and Mr. [Abe] Lincoln would join ardently in the sport. I remember vividly how he ran with the children; how long were his strides, and how far his coat-tails stuck out behind, and how we tried to hit him with the ball, as he ran the bases." [B] "Years after the Civil War, Winfield Scott Larner of Washington remembered attending a game played on an old Washington circus lot in 1862...Lincoln, followed by his son Tad...made his way up to where he could see the game...On departing Lincoln and Tad accepted three loud cheers from the crowd."
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| Sources | [A] Recollection [c.1890?] of Frank P. Blair III in Ida M. Tarbell, The Life of Abraham Lincoln, Volume 2 (Lincoln Memorial Association, New York, 1900), page 88. [B] The Evening Star (Washington, D. C.), July 12, 1914. Quoted in American Baseball: From Gentleman's Sport to the Commissioner System (university of Oklahoma Press, 1966), p.11. |
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| Comment | Blair, whose grandfather was Lincoln's Postmaster General, lived in Silver Spring, MD, just outside Washington. Blair was born in 1858 or 1859. Edit with form to add a comment |
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1861c.3 Lincoln and Baseball: The Presidential Years"
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