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Georgetown U Students "play Ball"

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Text	In a letter to a friend in 1836, a Georgetown Student wrote, "the Catholics think it no harm to play Ball, Draughts, or play the Fiddle and dance of a Sunday . . . " Cited in Thomas L. Altherr, "A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball," reprinted in David Block, Baseball Before We Knew It, page 316, as follows: Georgetown Student Letter, August 27, 1836, quoted in Betty Spears and Richard Swanson, History of Sport and Physical Activity in the United States, Second Edition (William C. Brown, Dubuque, 1983), page 85.
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 <p>Cited in Thomas L. Altherr, "A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball," reprinted in David Block, <u>Baseball Before We Knew It</u>, page 316, as follows: Georgetown Student Letter, August 27, 1836, quoted in Betty Spears and Richard Swanson, <u>History of Sport and Physical Activity in the United States</u>, Second Edition (William C. Brown, Dubuque, 1983), page 85.</p>
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