Early baseball in Arkansas/Predecessor Game 4
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Location | Arkansas |
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Year | 1864 |
Month | 1 |
Note on date | Possibly the 14th |
City | Fort Smith |
State | AR |
Country | US |
Name of game | Ball |
Found by | Caleb Hardwick |
Private Henry A. Strong writes about camp entertainment in his journal on January 14th, 1964 in Fort Smith, AR:
"Ball playing is got to be a chief amusement. Well, anything to drive away the blues when a fellow is on short rations"
Sources
A Rough Introduction to This Sunny Land: The Civil War Diary of Private Henry A. Strong, Co. K, Twelfth Kansas Infantry