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George Hancock shouted, "Let's play ball," and tied the boxing glove into the shape of a ball. The men chalked a diamond shape onto the floor and broke a broom handle to serve as a bat. This is credited as the first softball game which was played on Thanksgiving Day November 24, 1887 after a Harvard-Yale football game that had been followed by ...
George Hancock may refer to: George Hancock (Virginia politician) (1754–1820), U.S. Congressman from Virginia; George Hancock (Royal Navy officer) (1819–1876), Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Station; George Hancock (softball) (fl. 1880s), Chicago inventor of softball; George Hancock (architect) (1849–1924), active in North Dakota, Montana ...
George Edward Hancock (21 March 1912 – 2 April 1993) was an English international rugby union player. [1] Hancock was born in the Wirral and educated at Rock Ferry High School. [2] A three-quarter, Hancock was a Birkenhead Park player and Cheshire representative.
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George Hancock (June 13, 1754 – July 18, 1820) was an American planter and lawyer from Virginia. He represented Virginia as a Federalist in the U.S. House from 1793 to 1797. Biography
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Their son, John George Washington Hancock, born in 1778, died in 1787 while ice skating on a pond in Milton, Massachusetts, when he fell through the ice and drowned. [5] In 1796, after Hancock's death in 1793, Quincy married Captain James Scott (1742–1809), who had been employed by Hancock as a captain in his trading ventures with England.