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Base Ball Verse for Adults

Salience Peripheral
Tags Ball in the Culture
City/State/Country: NYC, NY, United States
Game Base Ball
Immediacy of Report Contemporary
Age of Players Adult
Text

"BASE BALL"

Nor will the SPIRIT e'er forget thy names/Base Ball, and Cricket, noble, manly games,/Where Health herself beholds the wicket fall,/ and Joy goes flying for the bounding ball,/And the gay greensward, studded with bright eyes/Of maid, who mark the glorious exercise,/Clap their white hands, and shout for very fun,/In free applause of every gallant run.-- New Year's Address

Sources

Porter's Spirit of the Times, Jan. 3, 1857

Comment

Prior base ball verses were aimed at juveniles...this is the earliest aimed at adult players and the ladies who cheered them on.

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Submitted by Bob Tholkes
Submission Note 2/25/2014



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