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|Comment=<p>Camp Doubleday is described in an 1896 source as "just outside Brooklyn city limits."</p>
|Comment=<p>Camp Doubleday is described in an 1896 source as "just outside Brooklyn city limits."</p>
<p>https://museum.dmna.ny.gov/unit-history/artillery/5th-heavy-artillery-regiment/prison-pens-south</p>
<p>https://museum.dmna.ny.gov/unit-history/artillery/5th-heavy-artillery-regiment/prison-pens-south</p>
<p>David Block suggests the drawing shows Drive ball, a fungo game: see&nbsp;<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Baseball Before We Knew It</span>&nbsp;(University of Nebraska Press, 2005), page 198.</p>
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|Source Image=Camp dday ltrhd.jpg
|Source Image=Camp dday ltrhd.jpg

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Ballplaying Featured on 1862 Letterhead for Camp Doubleday

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Tags Drawing, Famous
City/State/Country: United States
Immediacy of Report Contemporary
Age of Players Adult
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"Abner Doubleday has become a joke among us baseball folks. ("He didn't invent baseball; baseball invented him.") This letterhead, from 1862, may give pause even to hardened skeptics."

 

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John Thorn, Tweet on 2/2/22.  John notes that the game depicted does not resemble base ball, or wicket, or cricket.

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Camp Doubleday is described in an 1896 source as "just outside Brooklyn city limits."

https://museum.dmna.ny.gov/unit-history/artillery/5th-heavy-artillery-regiment/prison-pens-south

David Block suggests the drawing shows Drive ball, a fungo game: see Baseball Before We Knew It (University of Nebraska Press, 2005), page 198.

 

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