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|Year=1820 | |Year=1820 | ||
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|Year Number=26 | |||
|Headline=Octogenarian Recalls Frequency of Play, How Balls Were Made in NY | |||
|Salience=2 | |Salience=2 | ||
|Tags=Pre-Knicks | |Tags=Pre-Knicks NYC, | ||
|Text=<p>"If a base-ball were required, the boy of 1816 founded it with a bit of cork, or, if he were singularly fortunate, with some shreds of india-rubber; then it was wound with yarn | |Location= | ||
<p>Charles H. Haswell, < | |Country= | ||
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|Text=<p>"If a base-ball were required, the boy of 1816 founded it with a bit of cork, or, if he were singularly fortunate, with some shreds of india-rubber; then it was wound with yarn from a ravelled stocking, and some feminine member of his family covered it with patches of a soiled glove." - Charles Haswell</p> | |||
<p>(Haswell also reflected on Easter observances of the era. They were subdued, save for the coloring of eggs by some schoolboys. "For a few weeks during the periods of Easter and Paas, the cracking of eggs by boys supplanted marbles, kite-flying, and base-ball.")</p> | |||
|Sources=<p>Charles H. Haswell, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Reminiscences of An Octogenarian of the City of New York (1816 to 1860)</span> (Harper & Brothers, New York, 1897), page 77. Accessed 2/2/2010 via Google Books search <haswell octogenarian>. See also Thomas L. Altherr, “A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball: Baseball and Baseball-Type Games in the Colonial Era, Revolutionary War, and Early American Republic.." <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Nine</span>, Volume 8, number 2 (2000), p. 15-49. Reprinted in David Block, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Baseball before We Knew It</span> – see page 245 and ref #81.</p> | |||
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| Text | "If a base-ball were required, the boy of 1816 founded it with a bit of cork, or, if he were singularly fortunate, with some shreds of india-rubber; then it was wound with yarn from a ravelled stocking, and some feminine member of his family covered it with patches of a soiled glove." - Charles Haswell (Haswell also reflected on Easter observances of the era. They were subdued, save for the coloring of eggs by some schoolboys. "For a few weeks during the periods of Easter and Paas, the cracking of eggs by boys supplanted marbles, kite-flying, and base-ball.") |
| Sources | Charles H. Haswell, Reminiscences of An Octogenarian of the City of New York (1816 to 1860) (Harper & Brothers, New York, 1897), page 77. Accessed 2/2/2010 via Google Books search <haswell octogenarian>. See also Thomas L. Altherr, “A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball: Baseball and Baseball-Type Games in the Colonial Era, Revolutionary War, and Early American Republic.." Nine, Volume 8, number 2 (2000), p. 15-49. Reprinted in David Block, Baseball before We Knew It – see page 245 and ref #81.
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