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Adolescent Novel Describes Base Ball Game

Salience Peripheral
Tags Fiction
Location Massachusetts
City/State/Country: MA, United States
Game Base Ball
Immediacy of Report Contemporary
Age of Players Juvenile
Text

In this moral tale, Nat hits a triumphant home run, "turning a somersault as he came in."

Sources

Thayer William M., The Bobbin Boy; or, How Nat Got His Learning (J. E. Tilton, Boston, 1860), per David Block, Baseball Before We Knew It, pages 221-222.

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