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Wicket Sprouts in Iowa
Salience | Peripheral |
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Location | IowaIowa |
City/State/Country: | Clinton, IA, United States |
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Game | WicketWicket |
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Age of Players | AdultAdult |
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Text | "Protoball doesn't have any references to wicket clubs in Illinois during this period, although there is a reference to a 1857 club in Iowa. . . . Clinton City, where the Iowa wicket club was located, is on the Mississippi, about sixty miles west of Ottawa and Marseilles. Now the headline says that this was a game of base ball, rather than wicket, but the box score, which I attached, is kind of odd - three innings, possibly playing first to 200 runs. Sadly, they don't give us any information on the number of players per side." |
Sources | Jeff Kittel, email to Protoball, 1/13/2013. We are, in 2022, searching for the article that Jeff had located. |
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Query | Is their further evidence of wicket in IA and IL? Yes, see predecessor games, wicket in Clinton in 1857. [ba] Edit with form to add a query |
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Submitted by | Jeffrey Kittel |
Submission Note | Email, 12/1/2013 |
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