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|Description=<p>"Three-Corner Cat" is the name of a game recalled decades later by base ball founder William R. Wheaton, as having been played at a Brooklyn school in his youth. See <a href=" | |Description=<p>"Three-Corner Cat" is the name of a game recalled decades later by base ball founder William R. Wheaton, as having been played at a Brooklyn school in his youth. See <a href="1849c.4">http://protoball.org/1849c.4</a> for a chronology entry on this game. </p> | ||
<p>Three-cornered cat was a boys' game, and did well enough for slight youngsters, but it was a dangerous game for powerful men, because the ball was thrown to put out a man between bases, and it had to hit the runner to put him out."</p> | <p>"Three-cornered cat was a boys' game, and did well enough for slight youngsters, but it was a dangerous game for powerful men, because the ball was thrown to put out a man between bases, and it had to hit the runner to put him out."</p> | ||
<p>As is indicated in the 1849c.4 entry, the rules of this game, as recalled in 1905, were something of a hybrid between three old cat and modern baseball. Wheaton, who later had the job of writing new rules for the Gotham club, which were apparently a primary basis for the famous Knickerbocker rules of 1845. </p> | <p>As is indicated in the 1849c.4 entry, the rules of this game, as recalled in 1905, were something of a hybrid between three old cat and modern baseball. Wheaton, who later had the job of writing new rules for the Gotham club, which were apparently a primary basis for the famous Knickerbocker rules of 1845. </p> | ||
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|Sources=<p>"How Baseball Began: A Member of the Gotham Club of Fifty Years Ago Tells About It," <em>San Francisco Examiner </em>(date?), 1887. Wheaton's role in early base ball is related in John Thorn, <em>Baseball in the Garden of Eden </em>(Simon and Schuster, 2011), pp. 36-42. See also Randall Brown, "How Baseball Began," <em>National Pastime</em>, volume 24 (2004), pages 51-54.</p> | |Sources=<p>"How Baseball Began: A Member of the Gotham Club of Fifty Years Ago Tells About It," <em>San Francisco Examiner </em>(date?), 1887. Wheaton's role in early base ball is related in John Thorn, <em>Baseball in the Garden of Eden </em>(Simon and Schuster, 2011), pp. 36-42. See also Randall Brown, "How Baseball Began," <em>National Pastime</em>, volume 24 (2004), pages 51-54. </p> | ||
<p> | <p>See also Kuykendall reminiscences of Umpqua Academy, c. 1857, in Pre-pro. William Dean Howells, "A Boys Town" (1890) p. 83; Popular Science Monthly v. 37 (1890) p. 652-555; New Orleans Times-Democrat, Oct. 23, 1900; St. Louis Post-Dispatch, July 10, 1907 (Rems of Elbert Hubbard, of Hudson, IL in 1867); John M. Ward in Boston Globe, Sept. 30, 1888.</p> | ||
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| Game | Three-Cornered Cat |
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| Game Family | Baseball |
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| Regions | US |
| Eras | 1800s, Predecessor |
| Invented | Yes |
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| Description | "Three-Corner Cat" is the name of a game recalled decades later by base ball founder William R. Wheaton, as having been played at a Brooklyn school in his youth. See http://protoball.org/1849c.4 for a chronology entry on this game. "Three-cornered cat was a boys' game, and did well enough for slight youngsters, but it was a dangerous game for powerful men, because the ball was thrown to put out a man between bases, and it had to hit the runner to put him out." As is indicated in the 1849c.4 entry, the rules of this game, as recalled in 1905, were something of a hybrid between three old cat and modern baseball. Wheaton, who later had the job of writing new rules for the Gotham club, which were apparently a primary basis for the famous Knickerbocker rules of 1845.
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| Sources | "How Baseball Began: A Member of the Gotham Club of Fifty Years Ago Tells About It," San Francisco Examiner (date?), 1887. Wheaton's role in early base ball is related in John Thorn, Baseball in the Garden of Eden (Simon and Schuster, 2011), pp. 36-42. See also Randall Brown, "How Baseball Began," National Pastime, volume 24 (2004), pages 51-54. See also Kuykendall reminiscences of Umpqua Academy, c. 1857, in Pre-pro. William Dean Howells, "A Boys Town" (1890) p. 83; Popular Science Monthly v. 37 (1890) p. 652-555; New Orleans Times-Democrat, Oct. 23, 1900; St. Louis Post-Dispatch, July 10, 1907 (Rems of Elbert Hubbard, of Hudson, IL in 1867); John M. Ward in Boston Globe, Sept. 30, 1888. |
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