1861c.3

Town Ball in Maryland: Mr. Lincoln Faces Friendly Fire

Salience	Noteworthy
Tags	FamousFamous
Location	US SouthUS South
City/State/Country:	Silver Spring, MD, US
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Game	Town BallTown Ball
Immediacy of Report	Retrospective
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Holiday
Notables	Abraham Lincoln
Text	"We boys, for hours at a time, played "town ball" [at my grandfather's estate] on the vast lawn, and Mr. [Abe] Lincoln would join ardently in the sport. I remember vividly how he ran with the children; how long were his strides, and how far his coat-tails stuck out behind, and how we tried to hit him with the ball, as he ran the bases."
Sources	Recollection [c.1890?] of Frank P. Blair III in Ida M. Tarbell, The Life of Abraham Lincoln, Volume 2 (Lincoln Memorial Association, New York, 1900), page 88.
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Comment	Blair, whose grandfather was Lincoln's Postmaster General, lived in Silver Spring, MD, just outside Washington. Blair was born in 1858 or 1859. Edit with form to add a comment
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