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|Headline=Boston Merchant Recalls "Playing Ball on the Common Before Breakfast"
|Year=1790
|Year=1790
|Year Suffix=s
|Year Suffix=s
|Year Number=2
|Headline=Boston Merchant Recalls "Playing Ball on the Common Before Breakfast"
|Salience=2
|Salience=2
|Text=<p>Mason, Jonathan, "Recollections of a Septuagenarian," Downs Special Collection, Winterthur Library [Winterthur, Delaware], Document 30, volume 1, pp. 20 - 21. Per Thomas L. Altherr, "A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball," reprinted in David Block, <u>Baseball Before We Knew It,</u> ref # 81.</p>
|Country=United States
|Coordinates=42.3600825, -71.0588801
|State=MA
|City=Boston
|Immediacy of Report=Retrospective
|Age of Players=Juvenile
|Text=<p>" [Five of us] were playing ball on the common before breakfast: and the ball fell into a hole where one of the booth's stakes had been driven the day before . . . putting the hand down something jingled and we found several dollars in silver . . .&nbsp; We were small boys then all of us, and I was the youngest."&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;-- Jonathan Mason</p>
|Sources=<p>Mason, Jonathan, "Recollections of a Septuagenarian," <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Downs Special Collection</span>, Winterthur Library [Winterthur, Delaware], Document 30, volume 1, pp. 20 - 21. Per Thomas L. Altherr, "A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball," reprinted in David Block,&nbsp;<span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Baseball Before We Knew It</span>,</span>&nbsp;page 246 and ref # 85.</p>
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Boston Merchant Recalls "Playing Ball on the Common Before Breakfast"

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" [Five of us] were playing ball on the common before breakfast: and the ball fell into a hole where one of the booth's stakes had been driven the day before . . . putting the hand down something jingled and we found several dollars in silver . . .  We were small boys then all of us, and I was the youngest."     -- Jonathan Mason

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Mason, Jonathan, "Recollections of a Septuagenarian," Downs Special Collection, Winterthur Library [Winterthur, Delaware], Document 30, volume 1, pp. 20 - 21. Per Thomas L. Altherr, "A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball," reprinted in David Block, Baseball Before We Knew It, page 246 and ref # 85.

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