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|Year=1778 | |||
|Year Number=1 | |||
|Headline=American Surgeon Sees Ball-Playing in English Prison | |Headline=American Surgeon Sees Ball-Playing in English Prison | ||
|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," < | |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;"> 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;"> </span><span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Baseball before We Knew It</span>,</span> ref # 36; see pages 237-238. </p> | |||
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|Has Supplemental Text=No | |||
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| 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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