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US Book Describes "Barn Ball," "Base, or Goal Ball."

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Game Base ball, Goal Ball
Immediacy of Report Contemporary
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Boy's and Girl's Book of Sports [Providence, Cory and Daniels], pp 17-19, per Harold Seymour - Notes in the Seymour Collection at Cornell University, Kroch Library Department of Rare and Manuscript Collections, collection 4809. The base ball material is taken from Carver (1835 entry, above). 

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Also cited by David Block, Baseball Before We Knew It, page 199.

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Is there any indication that girls could or did play base ball in this text?

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