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Untitled Drawing of Ball Game [Wicket?] Appears in US Songbook

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Text	Watts' Divine and Moral Songs - For the Use of Children [New York, Mahlon Day, 374 Pearl Street, 1836], page 15. Obtained from the "Origins of Baseball" file at the Giamatti Center in Cooperstown. David Block, Baseball Before We Knew It, page 196, has found an 1833 edition. A drawing shows five children - a tosser, batter, two fielders, and boy waiting to bat. The bats are spoon-shaped. The wicket looks more like a cricket wicket than the long low bar in wicket. Is it wicket? Base-ball? Here's Block's commentary. " . . .an interesting woodcut portraying boys playing a slightly ambiguous bat-and-ball game that is possibly baseball . . . . A goal in the ground near the batter might be a wicket, but it more closely resembles an early baseball goal such as the one pictured in A Little Pretty Pocket-Book" (see #1744.2, above).
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 <p>A drawing shows five children - a tosser, batter, two fielders, and boy waiting to bat.  The bats are spoon-shaped. The wicket looks more like a cricket wicket than the long low bar in wicket.  Is it wicket?  Base-ball?  Here's Block's commentary.  " . .  .an interesting woodcut portraying boys playing a slightly ambiguous bat-and-ball game that is possibly baseball . . . .  A goal in the ground near the batter might be a wicket, but it more closely resembles an early baseball goal such as the one pictured in <u>A Little Pretty Pocket-Book</u>" (see #1744.2, above).</p>
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