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Old 11-23-2022, 02:23 AM
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I've found an amusing baseball anecdote while digging into Fullgraff and the sports world, and another source that Fullgraff was a member of the Larchmont, who appear in T59 as one of the obscure associations in the fourth series. Fullgraff may or may not have put this set together. Fullgraff played in a "water baseball game" between a club of married men against a team of single men. This "was simply a lark frolic in the water" and Fullgraff "in a woman's yachting costume, fell into the water with a scream, shrill as a locomotives shriek, and created a momentary scare among the uninitiated." This event seems to have been the highlight of the water baseball game, whose score is not given. https://www.google.com/books/edition...J?hl=en&gbpv=0


I cannot see the entirety of this book or the full section (https://www.google.com/books/edition...aff%20baseball), but we learn that "( By Frank G. Fullgraff of Brooklyn , a Club veteran who served as a member of the 22nd Regiment of the New York National ... He has given up his first love — baseball — but he still retains his love for athletics , as his residence ..."

Another source (https://www.google.com/books/edition...J?hl=en&gbpv=0) mentioning the 1876 NRA event where Fullgraff won a marksmanship contest confirms him as a member of the 22nd regiment. In the firearms world, the 22nd New York regiment of this time was considered skilled in sport shooting and had deep ties to the fledgling NRA. Some of their shooting rules and methods were adopted as NRA standard for broader competition, when the NRA was an NY club primarily teaching and preaching good marksmanship.

His rank in the 22nd appears to have been a private (https://www.google.com/books/edition...J?hl=en&gbpv=0)
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