Touch-the-Base

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Game	Touch-the-Base
Game Family	Hook-em-snivy Hook-em-snivy
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Invented	No
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Description	Writing of the Ohio youth of a Civil War general in about 1840, Whitelaw Reid (1868) reported that “Touch-the-Base” was the favorite game, and of all who engaged in the romp, none were more eager or happy than ‘Jimmy” (the late Major-General James McPherson). We cannot be sure that this was a ball game.
Sources	Whitelaw Reid, Ohio in the War (Moore, Wilstach and Baldwin, Cincinnati, 1868), page 562. See also PBall Chronology entry #1840c.37
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