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|Text=<p>David Block reports: "In the lengthy 'Editor's Table' section of this [<u>The Knickerbocker</u>] classic monthly magazine, the editor described a nostalgic visit that he and two old school chums had taken to the academy that they had attended near Syracuse. 'We went out upon the once-familiar green, as if it were again 'play time', and called by name upon our old companions to come over once more and play 'base-ball.' But they answered not; they came not! The old forms and faces were gone; the once familiar voices were silent.'" Source: "Editor's Table," <u>The Knickerbocker</u> (S. Hueston, New York, 1850), page 298. Contributed by David Block 2/27/2008. The Editor, Lewis Gaylord Clark, was born in 1810, and attended the Onondaga Academy. He was thus apparently recalling ball-playing from sometime in the 1820s. <b>Query:</b> Can we get better data on Clark's age while at the Academy?</p> | |Text=<p>David Block reports: "In the lengthy 'Editor's Table' section of this [<u>The Knickerbocker</u>] classic monthly magazine, the editor described a nostalgic visit that he and two old school chums had taken to the academy that they had attended near Syracuse. 'We went out upon the once-familiar green, as if it were again 'play time', and called by name upon our old companions to come over once more and play 'base-ball.' But they answered not; they came not! The old forms and faces were gone; the once familiar voices were silent.'" Source: "Editor's Table," <u>The Knickerbocker</u> (S. Hueston, New York, 1850), page 298. Contributed by David Block 2/27/2008. The Editor, Lewis Gaylord Clark, was born in 1810, and attended the Onondaga Academy. He was thus apparently recalling ball-playing from sometime in the 1820s. <b>Query:</b> Can we get better data on Clark's age while at the Academy?</p> | ||
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Syracuse NY Ball Field Remembered as Base Ball Site
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| Text | David Block reports: "In the lengthy 'Editor's Table' section of this [The Knickerbocker] classic monthly magazine, the editor described a nostalgic visit that he and two old school chums had taken to the academy that they had attended near Syracuse. 'We went out upon the once-familiar green, as if it were again 'play time', and called by name upon our old companions to come over once more and play 'base-ball.' But they answered not; they came not! The old forms and faces were gone; the once familiar voices were silent.'" Source: "Editor's Table," The Knickerbocker (S. Hueston, New York, 1850), page 298. Contributed by David Block 2/27/2008. The Editor, Lewis Gaylord Clark, was born in 1810, and attended the Onondaga Academy. He was thus apparently recalling ball-playing from sometime in the 1820s. Query: Can we get better data on Clark's age while at the Academy? |
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