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|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. | |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 . . . We were small boys then all of us, and I was the youngest." -- 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, <span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Baseball Before We Knew It</span>,</span> page 246 and ref # 85.</p> | |||
|Reviewed=Yes | |Reviewed=Yes | ||
| | |Has Supplemental Text=No | ||
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| Text | " [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 |
| Sources | 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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