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{{Chronology Entry
|Year=1778
|Year Number=1
|Headline=American Surgeon Sees Ball-Playing in English Prison
|Headline=American Surgeon Sees Ball-Playing in English Prison
|Year=1778
|Salience=2
|Salience=2
|Tags=Military,
|Location=New England
|Location=New England
|Text=<p>Coan, Marion, ed., "A Revolutionary Prison Diary: The Journal of Dr. Jonathan Haskins," <u>New England Quarterly</u>, volume 17, number 2 [June 1944], p. 308. Per Thomas L. Altherr, "A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball," reprinted in David Block, <u>Baseball Before We Knew It,</u> ref # 36.</p>
|Immediacy of Report=Contemporary
|Age of Players=Adult
|Text=<p>"23rd [May 1778]. This forenoon as some of the prisoners was playing ball, it by chance happened to lodge n the eave spout. One climbed up to take the ball out, and a sentry without the wall seeing him, fired at him, but did no harm."</p>
|Sources=<p>Coan, Marion, ed., "A Revolutionary Prison Diary: The Journal of Dr. Jonathan Haskins,"<span style="text-decoration: underline;">&nbsp;New England Quarterly</span>, volume 17, number 2 [June 1944], p. 308. Per Thomas L. Altherr, "A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball," reprinted in David Block,<span style="text-decoration: underline;">&nbsp;</span><span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Baseball before We Knew It</span>,</span>&nbsp;ref # 36; see pages 237-238.&nbsp;</p>
|Reviewed=Yes
|Has Supplemental Text=No
}}
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American Surgeon Sees Ball-Playing in English Prison

Salience Noteworthy
Tags Military
Location New England
Immediacy of Report Contemporary
Age of Players Adult
Text

"23rd [May 1778]. This forenoon as some of the prisoners was playing ball, it by chance happened to lodge n the eave spout. One climbed up to take the ball out, and a sentry without the wall seeing him, fired at him, but did no harm."

Sources

Coan, Marion, ed., "A Revolutionary Prison Diary: The Journal of Dr. Jonathan Haskins," New England Quarterly, volume 17, number 2 [June 1944], p. 308. Per Thomas L. Altherr, "A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball," reprinted in David Block, Baseball before We Knew It, ref # 36; see pages 237-238. 

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