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- Title
March, Conquest, and Play Ball The Game in the Mexican-American War, 1846-1848.
- Authors
Gómez, César González
- Abstract
Both Abner Doubleday and ball games were present in Mexico during the war years between 1846 and 1848. However, the alleged inventor of baseball was busy winning battles and posing for daguerreotypes, while the regiments from Illinois were replicating, in the Mexican fields, the popularity of ball games in their own state (although to do so they had to use the artificial leg of General Santa Anna as a baseball bat). At the same time, the New York Volunteers were leaving a trace of baseball along the Pacific Coast by obeying Walt Whitman's invitation to put "better air in their lungs" and play the "glorious" game of ball.
- Subjects
MEXICO; HISTORY of baseball; MEXICAN War, 1846-1848; SPORTS &; war; BASEBALL; RECREATION for military personnel
- Publication
Base Ball: A Journal of the Early Game, 2011, Vol 5, Issue 2, p13
- ISSN
1934-2802
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3172/BB.5.2.13