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Noah Webster, CT Ballplayer?

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Text	"Connecticut lexicographer and writer Noah Webster may have been referring to a baseball- type game when he wrote his journal entry for March 24-25, 1788: 'Take a long walk. Play at Nines at Mr Brandons. Very much indisposed.'" Thomas L. Altherr, "A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball," reprinted in David Block, Baseball Before We Knew It; see page 241. Altherr cites the diary as Webster, Noah, "Diary," reprinted in Notes on the Life of Noah Webster, E. E. F Ford, ed., (privately printed, New York, 1912), page 227 of volume 1. Note: "Nines seems an unusual name for a ball game; do we find it elsewhere? Could he have been denoting nine-pins or nine-holes? John Thorn, in 2/3/2008, says he inclines to nine-pins as the game alluded to.
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 <p>Thomas L. Altherr, "A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball," reprinted in David Block, <u>Baseball Before We Knew It;</u> see page 241.  Altherr cites the diary as Webster, Noah, "Diary," reprinted in <u>Notes on the Life of Noah Webster</u>, E. E. F Ford, ed., (privately printed, New York, 1912), page 227 of volume 1.<b>  Note:</b> "Nines seems an unusual name for a ball game; do we find it elsewhere?  Could he have been denoting nine-pins or nine-holes?  John Thorn, in 2/3/2008, says he inclines to nine-pins as the game alluded to.</p>
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