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Doc Adams' Sister Writes of Bat and Ball Play

Salience Peripheral
Tags Females, Pre-modern Rules
City/State/Country: Mount Vernon, NH, US
Game Bat and Ball
Immediacy of Report Contemporary
Age of Players Youth
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In a June 1832 letter to her 17-year-old brother at Amherst, the 10-year-old Nancy Ann Adams wrote, "I felt very lonesome after you and the rest were gone.  I have not played with your bat and ball as you bid me."

Her brother is Daniel Lucius "Doc" Adams, who was to become a key member of the Knickerbocker Base Ball Club about eight years later.

 

Sources

Letter, Nancy A. Adams to D. L. Adams, 7/15/1832, from Mount Vernon NH.

Comment

The game that the future Doc Adams played with these objects is not known. 

A game called "bat and ball" is known to have been played in NH, and her wording echoes that name.

Even a hint that a girl would be tempted to take up a bat and ball is notable in US ballplaying history.

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Submitted by John Thorn
Submission Note Email of 10/19/2014.



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