1852.8
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Adult Town Ball Seen in on a Sunday in IL
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| Location | IllinoisIllinois |
| City/State/Country: | [[{{{Country}}}]] |
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| Game | Town BallTown Ball |
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| Age of Players | AdultAdult |
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| Text | "[N]ot a great while ago, [I] saw a number of grown men, on a Sabbath morning, playing town-ball." "I grieve to say the stores all do business on the Sabbath. We hope, by constantly showing the people their transgression, to break up this [commerce] , the source of so much other sin." |
| Sources | Rev. E. B. Olmsted, The Home Missionary [Office of the American Home Missionary Society] Volume 24, Number 1 [May 1852], page 188. |
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| Comment | The location of the game was Cairo, Illinois. Edit with form to add a comment |
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1852.8 Adult Town Ball Seen in on a Sunday in IL"
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