1850c.26
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Needed: More Festival Days - Like Fast Day? For Ballplaying
| Salience | Peripheral |
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| Tags | HolidaysHolidays |
| Location | New EnglandNew England |
| City/State/Country: | [[{{{Country}}}]] |
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| Immediacy of Report | Contemporary |
| Age of Players | Juvenile, Youth, AdultJuvenile, Youth, Adult |
| Holiday | Fast Day |
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| Text | "[T]hey committed a radical error in abolishing all the Papal holidays, or in not substituting something therefore. We have Thanksgiving, and the Fourth of July, and Fast-Day when the young men play ball. We need three times as many festivals." |
| Sources | Arethusa Hall, compiler, Life and Character of the Reverend Sylvester Judd (Crosby, Nichols and Co., Boston, 1854), page 330. The book compiles ideas and views from Judd's writings. Judd was born in 1813 and died at 40 in 1853. John Corrigan (see #1850s.25) quotes a James Blake as capturing popular attitudes about Fast Day. Writing of Fast Day 1851, Blake said "Fast & pray says the Governor, Feast & play says the people." John Corrigan, "The Anxiety of Boston at Mid-Century," in Business of the Heart: Religion and Emotion in the Nineteenth Century (University of California Press, 2002), page 45. Corrigan's source, supplied 10/31/09 by Joshua Fleer, is James Barnard Blake, "Diary, April 10, 1851, American Antiquarian Society. |
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| Query | What were the Catholic festivals that were eliminated? Were any tradfitionally associated with ballplaying? Edit with form to add a query |
| Source Image | [[Image:|left|thumb]] |
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| Submitted by | Joshua Fleer |
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1850c.26 Needed: More Festival Days - Like Fast Day? For Ballplaying"
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