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{{Chronology Entry
|Year=1837
|Year Number=2
|Headline=Ball Game Described in Fictional Account of Western Indians
|Headline=Ball Game Described in Fictional Account of Western Indians
|Year=1837
|Salience=2
|Salience=2
|Tags=Equipment, Females, Fiction,
|Game=Base Ball
|Game=Base Ball
|Tags=Fiction
|Text=<p><strong>For Text:&nbsp;</strong>David Block carries three paragraphs of text from this story in Appendix 7, page 283, of&nbsp;<span>Baseball Before We Knew It.</span></p>
|Text=<p>Captured by Native Americans, a youth see them playing a game of ball. The "ball" was part of a sturgeon's head covered with deerskin strips, the club was of hickory, some number of safe-haven bases were formed by small piles of stones, and there was plugging. "Their principal object seemed to be, to send the ball as far as possible, in order for the striker of it, to run around the great space of ground, which was comprised within the area formed by the piles of stones." There is no mention of a pitcher, and if a batter-runner was put out, he would replace the fielder who made the putout. Some games would last for days.</p>
<p>Captured by Native Americans, a youth sees them playing a game of ball. The "ball" was part of a sturgeon's head covered with deerskin strips, the club was of hickory, some number of safe-haven bases were formed by small piles of stones, and there was plugging.</p>
<p><u>Female Robinson Crusoe, A Tale of the American Wilderness</u> [J. W. Bell, New York, 1837], pp 176-178. Per RH ref 58. Reprinted in Dean A. Sullivan, Compiler and Editor, <u>Early Innings: A Documentary History of Baseball, 1825 - 1908</u> [University of Nebraska Press, 1995], pp. 4-5.</p>
<p>"Their principal object seemed to be to send the ball as far as possible, in order for the striker of it, to run around the great space of ground, which was comprised within the area formed by the piles of stones."</p>
<p><b>For Text: </b> David Block carries three paragraphs of text from this story in Appendix 7, page 283, of <u>Baseball Before We Knew It.</u></p>
<p>There is no mention of a pitcher, and if a batter-runner was put out, he would replace the fielder who made the putout. Some games would last for days.</p>
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|Sources=<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Female Robinson Crusoe, A Tale of the American Wilderness</span>&nbsp;[J. W. Bell, New York, 1837], pp 176-178. Per RH ref 58.</p>
<p>Reprinted in Dean A. Sullivan, Compiler and Editor,&nbsp;<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Early Innings: A Documentary History of Baseball, 1825 - 1908</span>,&nbsp;University of Nebraska Press, 1995, pp. 4-5.</p>
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For Text: David Block carries three paragraphs of text from this story in Appendix 7, page 283, of Baseball Before We Knew It.

Captured by Native Americans, a youth sees them playing a game of ball. The "ball" was part of a sturgeon's head covered with deerskin strips, the club was of hickory, some number of safe-haven bases were formed by small piles of stones, and there was plugging.

"Their principal object seemed to be to send the ball as far as possible, in order for the striker of it, to run around the great space of ground, which was comprised within the area formed by the piles of stones."

There is no mention of a pitcher, and if a batter-runner was put out, he would replace the fielder who made the putout. Some games would last for days.

 

Sources

Female Robinson Crusoe, A Tale of the American Wilderness [J. W. Bell, New York, 1837], pp 176-178. Per RH ref 58.

Reprinted in Dean A. Sullivan, Compiler and Editor, Early Innings: A Documentary History of Baseball, 1825 - 1908, University of Nebraska Press, 1995, pp. 4-5.

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