Editing Early baseball in Missouri/Game 1

{{Origins-game
|Location=Missouri
|Year=1849
|Month=4
|Date=23
|City=Independence
|State=MO
|Country=US
|NYBaseball=Unknown
|Locals=Unknown
|Approved=false
}}
“Indigenous peoples west of the Mississippi may not have seen the game until 1849 when Alexander Cartwright, near Independence, Missouri, noted baseball play in his April 23rd diary entry:  ‘During the past week we have passed the time in fixing wagon covers . . . etc., varied by hunting and fishing and playing baseball [sic]. It is comical to see the mountain men and Indians playing the new game.  I have a ball with me that we used back home.’”

 

Altherr, Thomas L., “North American Indigenous People and Baseball: ‘The One Single Thing the White Man Has Done Right,’” in Altherr, ed., Above the Fruited Plain: Baseball in the Rocky Mountain West, SABR National Convention Publication, 2003, page 20.  Note: XXX need to add Tom’s footnote 5, which references the diary.  Is Tom saying that there were no prior safe-haven ball games [cricket, town ball, wicket] out west, or just that the NY game hadn’t arrived until 1849?

Protoball record 1849.3 from
[http://retrosheet.org/Protoball/chron.htm Protoball project]
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 |NYBaseball=Unknown
 |Locals=Unknown
-|First=No
+|Approved=false
-|Approved=Yes
+}}
-|Pagetext=From Protoball Entry #1849.13 – Did Cartwright Play Ball on His Way to California?
+“Indigenous peoples west of the Mississippi may not have seen the game until 1849 when Alexander Cartwright, near Independence, Missouri, noted baseball play in his April 23rd diary entry:  ‘During the past week we have passed the time in fixing wagon covers . . . etc., varied by hunting and fishing and playing baseball [sic]. It is comical to see the mountain men and Indians playing the new game.  I have a ball with me that we used back home.’”
-“April 23, 1849 [evidently the day before Cartwright left Independence MO for California]  During the past week we have passed the time in fixing the wagon covers, stowing away property etc., varied by hunting , fishing, swimming and playing base-ball.  I have the ball and book of Rules with me that we used in forming the Knickerbocker Base-ball Club back home.”
-Source: Cartwright family typed copy of lost handwritten diary by Alexander Cartwright, as cited in Monica Nucciarone, Alexander Cartwright: The Life Behind the Baseball Legend (UNebraska Press, 2009), page 31.  Nucciarone adds that this version differs from the transcription in a Hawaii museum, in that the baseball references only appear in the family’s version.
+Altherr, Thomas L., “North American Indigenous People and Baseball: ‘The One Single Thing the White Man Has Done Right,’” in Altherr, ed., Above the Fruited Plain: Baseball in the Rocky Mountain West, SABR National Convention Publication, 2003, page 20.  Note: XXX need to add Tom’s footnote 5, which references the diary.  Is Tom saying that there were no prior safe-haven ball games [cricket, town ball, wicket] out west, or just that the NY game hadn’t arrived until 1849?
-Caution:  The legend is that Cartwright played his way west.  Nucciarone, page 30: “[W]hile it’s easy to imagine Cartwright playing baseball when he could and spreading the new game across the country as he went, it’s much more difficult to prove he did this.  The evidence is scant and inconsistent.”
+Protoball record 1849.3 from
-|Sources=
+[http://retrosheet.org/Protoball/chron.htm Protoball project]
-Monica Nucciarone, Alexander Cartwright: The Life Behind the Baseball Legend (UNebraska Press, 2009), page 31.
-}}