1836c.11

Recollections of a Jersey City Boy

Salience	Noteworthy
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Location	Jersey CityJersey City
City/State/Country:	[[Jersey City, NJ, {{{Country}}}\|Jersey City]], [[NJ, {{{Country}}}\|NJ]], [[{{{Country}}}]]
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Game	Base BallBase Ball
Immediacy of Report	Retrospective
Age of Players	YouthYouth
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Text	From John Thorne, July 28, 2015: "This just in from Ben Zimmer, a Facebook friend who writes for the Wall Street Journal. Important, I think. You might be interested in another early baseball example -- it's from the Jersey Journal from Jersey City (where I live!), written in 1871 but recalling a protoball club of the 1830s: Jersey Journal, Dec. 13, 1871, p. 1, col. 3 "Recollections of a Jersey City Boy, No. 3." While here let me say to the Champion Base Ball Club, for their information, that in eighteen hundred and thirty-six and seven we had a base ball club that could not be beaten. It was composed of such men as Jerry O'Meara, Peter Bentley, J.C. Morgan, Jos. G. Edge, &c.... I would rather get hit by any member of the club than by Bentley, for he was a south-paw or left-hander, and he used to strike and throw an unmerciful ball." Bentley later became the town's mayor.
Sources	Jersey Journal, Dec. 13, 1871, p. 1, col. 3
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Submitted by	Bruce Allardice
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