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|Game=Base Ball, Bat-and-Ball
|Game=Base Ball, Bat-and-Ball
|Immediacy of Report=Contemporary
|Immediacy of Report=Contemporary
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|Text=<p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: medium;">An 1864 schoolbook lesson presents &ldquo;Base-ball&rdquo; and &ldquo;Bat and Ball&rdquo; as two names for the same game.&nbsp; </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: medium;">An 1864 schoolbook lesson presents &ldquo;Base-ball&rdquo; and &ldquo;Bat and Ball&rdquo; as two names for the same game.&nbsp; </span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;">After describing football, the authors describe &ldquo;another game, which is called base ball, or bat and ball. [. . .]&nbsp; The ball used in this game is much smaller and is driven through the air with a round piece of wood called a bat, with which the boy strikes the ball&rdquo; (pp. 72-73)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;">After describing football, the authors describe &ldquo;another game, which is called base ball, or bat and ball. [. . .]&nbsp; The ball used in this game is much smaller and is driven through the air with a round piece of wood called a bat, with which the boy strikes the ball&rdquo; (pp. 72-73)</span></p>
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|Sources=<p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Second Reader for Primary Schools</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;">, George S. Hilliard and&nbsp;Loomis Joseph Campbell (Philadelphia: &nbsp;Eldredge and Brother, 1864), pp. 72-73. </span></span></p>
|Sources=<p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;">George S. Hilliard and&nbsp;Loomis Joseph Campbell</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;">, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">T</span></span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">he Second Reader for Primary Schools</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;">, (Philadelphia: &nbsp;Eldredge and Brother, 1864), pp. 72-73. </span></span></p>
|Comment=<p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Of special interest here is co-author George S. Hilliard, whose background may explain why he regarded base-ball and bat and ball as the same game.&nbsp; Hilliard (1808 &ndash; 1879) was born in Machias on the coast of Maine, where the term &ldquo;the bat and ball&rdquo; was used to describe a specific baseball-like game (see B. Turner, &ldquo;The Bat and Ball,&rdquo; </span><em><span style="font-size: medium;">Base Ball</span></em><span style="font-size: medium;"> (Spring 2011).&nbsp; Starting in 1828, Hilliard was an instructor at the Round Hill School in Northampton, MA, where baseball-like games were part of the physical education curriculum (see, entry [[1823.6]]; also see</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> B. Turner, &ldquo;Cogswell&rsquo;s Bat,&rdquo; </span><em><span style="font-size: medium;">Base Ball</span></em><span style="font-size: medium;"> (Spring 2010)).&nbsp; </span></span></p>
|Comment=<p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Of special interest here is co-author George S. Hilliard, whose background may explain why he regarded base-ball and bat and ball as the same game.&nbsp; Hilliard (1808 &ndash; 1879) was born in Machias on the coast of Maine, where the term &ldquo;the bat and ball&rdquo; was used to describe a specific baseball-like game (see B. Turner, &ldquo;The Bat and Ball,&rdquo; </span><em><span style="font-size: medium;">Base Ball</span></em><span style="font-size: medium;"> (Spring 2011).&nbsp; Starting in 1828, Hilliard was an instructor at the Round Hill School in Northampton, MA, where baseball-like games were part of the physical education curriculum (see, entry [[1823.6]]; also see</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> B. Turner, &ldquo;Cogswell&rsquo;s Bat,&rdquo; </span><em><span style="font-size: medium;">Base Ball</span></em><span style="font-size: medium;"> (Spring 2010)).&nbsp; </span></span></p>
|Submitted by=Brian Turner
|Submitted by=Brian Turner

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An 1864 schoolbook lesson presents “Base-ball” and “Bat and Ball” as two names for the same game. 

After describing football, the authors describe “another game, which is called base ball, or bat and ball. [. . .]  The ball used in this game is much smaller and is driven through the air with a round piece of wood called a bat, with which the boy strikes the ball” (pp. 72-73)

 

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George S. Hilliard and Loomis Joseph Campbell, The Second Reader for Primary Schools, (Philadelphia:  Eldredge and Brother, 1864), pp. 72-73.

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Of special interest here is co-author George S. Hilliard, whose background may explain why he regarded base-ball and bat and ball as the same game.  Hilliard (1808 – 1879) was born in Machias on the coast of Maine, where the term “the bat and ball” was used to describe a specific baseball-like game (see B. Turner, “The Bat and Ball,” Base Ball (Spring 2011).  Starting in 1828, Hilliard was an instructor at the Round Hill School in Northampton, MA, where baseball-like games were part of the physical education curriculum (see, entry 1823.6; also see B. Turner, “Cogswell’s Bat,” Base Ball (Spring 2010)). 

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