1856.30

"Ball playing" Schoolboy Essay

Salience	Peripheral
Tags	Ball in the CultureBall in the Culture
Location	NY StateNY State
City/State/Country:	Nyack, NY, United States
Modern Address
Game
Immediacy of Report	Contemporary
Age of Players	JuvenileJuvenile
Holiday
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Text	A game at ball is a very nice play. The boys have a bat, and they hit a ball with it and knock it away. Sometimes the boys miss the ball, and then the catcher catches it, and they have to be out. There are two kinds of ball playing: the base ball and the cat and dog ball. When the boys play cat and dog ball, they have two bats and four boys. Two of the boys take the bats, and the other two throw the ball from one to the other past the boys who have the bats, at the same time one throws the other tries to catch him out. Nyack, Dec. 1856 T.--Dis. 4."
Sources	Rockland Co. Journal, Dec. 27, 1856
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Comment	Per Richard Hershberger, "the one example of the genre I know of from anything like this early." Edit with form to add a comment
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Submitted by	Richard Hershberger
Submission Note	email of 4/28/2013
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