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RI Boy Did A Little Ball-Playing
| Salience | Noteworthy |
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| City/State/Country: | Cumberland, RI, United States |
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| Immediacy of Report | Retrospective |
| Age of Players | YouthYouth |
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| Text | Adin Ballou grew up in a minister's home in Cumberland, RI, and his amusements were of the "homely and simple kinds, such as hunting, fishing, wrestling, wrestling, jumping, ball-playing , quoit-pitching . . .Card-playing was utterly disallowed." |
| Sources | "W. Heywood, ed., Autobiography of Adin Ballou (Vox Populi Press, Lowell MA, 1896), page 13. Per Thomas L. Altherr, "Chucking the Old Apple: Recent Discoveries of Pre-1840 North American Ball Games," Base Ball, Volume 2, number 1 (Spring 2008), page 30. The autobiography was accessed 11/15/2008 via a Google Books search for "adin ballou." |
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1815c.5 RI Boy Did A Little Ball-Playing"
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