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Ballplaying Featured on 1862 Letterhead for Camp Doubleday

Salience	Peripheral
Tags	Drawing, FamousDrawing, Famous
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City/State/Country:	United States
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Immediacy of Report	Contemporary
Age of Players	AdultAdult
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Text	"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."
Sources	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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Comment	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 Another source locates it in Northwest Washington DC:  https://www.northamericanforts.com/East/dc.html#NW   David Block suggests the drawing shows Drive ball, a fungo game: see Baseball Before We Knew It (University of Nebraska Press, 2005), page 198.     Edit with form to add a comment
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Submitted by	John Thorn
Submission Note	Tweet, 2/2/22
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1862.104 Ballplaying Featured on 1862 Letterhead for Camp Doubleday"

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