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|Year=1844
|Year Number=4
|Headline=The Popular <u>McGuffey&#39;s Reader</u> Adds a New Woodcut of Ball Play
|Headline=The Popular <u>McGuffey&#39;s Reader</u> Adds a New Woodcut of Ball Play
|Year=1844
|Salience=2
|Is in main chronology=yes
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|Text=<p>McGuffey, Wm H., <u>McGuffey's Newly Revised Eclectic First Reader</u> [Cincinnati, W. B. Smith], per David Block, <u>Baseball Before We Knew It</u>, page 207. Block finds that the [original?] 1836 version of the revered reader lacked any ball-play content. The new edition adds a simple woodcut and this caption: "The boys play with balls. John has a bat in his hand. I can hit the ball."</p>
|Text=<p>McGuffey, Wm H., <span style="text-decoration: underline;">McGuffey's Newly Revised Eclectic First Reader</span> [Cincinnati, W. B. Smith], per David Block, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Baseball Before We Knew It</span>, page 207. Block finds that the [original?] 1836 version of the revered reader lacked any ball-play content. The new edition adds a simple woodcut and this caption: "The boys play with balls. John has a bat in his hand. I can hit the ball."</p>
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McGuffey, Wm H., McGuffey's Newly Revised Eclectic First Reader [Cincinnati, W. B. Smith], per David Block, Baseball Before We Knew It, page 207. Block finds that the [original?] 1836 version of the revered reader lacked any ball-play content. The new edition adds a simple woodcut and this caption: "The boys play with balls. John has a bat in his hand. I can hit the ball."

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