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Children's Book Recommends Regular Play with "Trap, Bat, Ball," etc.

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"Youthful Recreations . . . [says] that it should be the right of every child to have an hour of recreation each day with sports, among bat and ball-type games."  -- Tom Altherr

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Youthful Recreations (Jacob Johnson, Philadelphia, 1810), no pagination. Per Thomas L. Altherr, "A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball," reprinted in David Block, Baseball before We Knew It, see page  243 and ref # 63.

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