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|Year=1861
|Year=1861
|Headline=Knocker Plugged in Head in 6-on-6 Game at Long Island NY Camp
|Year Suffix=
|Text=<p>In an August 2 1861 letter to his brother, a soldier in the 48<sup>th</sup> NY Volunteer Regiment wrote: “Yesterday we was playing ball 6 on a side, all good players. Their [sic] was but one man hit. He was running across the lower bases [? – LMc] and I was throwing ball. So I caught the knocker out and throwed the ball at him. It hit him on the head and knocked him down on the spot. His head swelled awful. The Capt. Said I was a good shot as it was about 45 yards off. About 200 laughing at him. He stood it like a soldier.</p><p>Letter from J. G. Abbott at Camp Wyman, Fort Hamilton Long Island. Information from an online auction of the letter, accessed 5/19/09. In August 1861, the regiment’s early recruits were settling in at the Long Island camp. Recruiting had begun in July in Brooklyn, and Abbott seems to have traveled there to enlist. In regiment records John G. Abbott appears as a 22-year old sergeant in Company D in 1861. He died in 1863 of wounds received at Fort Wagner, SC – the battle depicted in the movie <i>Glory</i>. </p>
|Year Number=24
|Tags=Civil War
|Headline=Houston, We Have A Problem
|Salience=3
|Location=Texas,
|Country=United States
|Coordinates=29.7604267, -95.3698028
|State=TX
|City=Houston
|Modern Address=
|Game=Base Ball
|Immediacy of Report=Contemporary
|Age of Players=Adult
|Holiday=
|Notables=
|Text=<p>"Friend SPIRIT: A meeting for the purpose of organizing a base ball club in this city, was held on Thursday evening last, April 4, when eighteen of the most respectable young men of this city met and adopted a constitution, by-laws, rules and regulations for playing the game, and elected their officers...The club adopted the name of 'Houston Base Ball Club'...They play their first match game among themselves, on Saturday, the 27th of this month. The result you can expect immediately thereafter."</p>
|Sources=<p><em>Wilkes' Spirit of the Times,</em> April 27, 1861.</p>
|Warning=
|Comment=<p>If, held, the planned match on April 27 did not reach (or was not printed by) <em>Wilkes' Spirit.&nbsp;</em>Texas had already seceded and joined the Southern Confederacy by the time the Houston BBC formed. The beginning of the war after Fort Sumter was fired upon on April 12 presumably ended such communication.</p>
<p>See Protoball Pre-Pro, the Houston Ball Club, for more on this club.</p>
|Query=
|Source Image=
|External Number=
|Submitted by=Bob Tholkes
|Submission Note=3/10/2014
|Reviewed=Yes
|Has Supplemental Text=No
}}
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Houston, We Have A Problem

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City/State/Country: Houston, TX, United States
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"Friend SPIRIT: A meeting for the purpose of organizing a base ball club in this city, was held on Thursday evening last, April 4, when eighteen of the most respectable young men of this city met and adopted a constitution, by-laws, rules and regulations for playing the game, and elected their officers...The club adopted the name of 'Houston Base Ball Club'...They play their first match game among themselves, on Saturday, the 27th of this month. The result you can expect immediately thereafter."

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Wilkes' Spirit of the Times, April 27, 1861.

Comment

If, held, the planned match on April 27 did not reach (or was not printed by) Wilkes' Spirit. Texas had already seceded and joined the Southern Confederacy by the time the Houston BBC formed. The beginning of the war after Fort Sumter was fired upon on April 12 presumably ended such communication.

See Protoball Pre-Pro, the Houston Ball Club, for more on this club.

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Submitted by Bob Tholkes
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