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|Headline=Untitled Drawing of Ball Game [Wicket?] Appears in US Songbook | |Headline=Untitled Drawing of Ball Game [Wicket?] Appears in US 1830s Songbook | ||
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|Tags=US cricket clubs, | |Tags=Drawing, Music, US cricket clubs, | ||
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<p>A drawing shows five children - a tosser, batter, two fielders, and boy waiting to bat. The bats are spoon-shaped. The wicket looks more like an upright cricket wicket than the long low bar associated with US wicket. </p> | <p>A songbook drawing shows five children - a tosser, batter, two fielders, and boy waiting to bat. The bats are spoon-shaped. The wicket looks more like an upright cricket wicket than the long low bar associated with US wicket. </p> | ||
|Sources=<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Watts' Divine and Moral Songs - For the Use of Children</span> [New York, Mahlon Day, 374 Pearl Street, 1836], page 15. Accessed at the "Origins of Baseball" file at the Giamatti Center in</p> | |Sources=<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Watts' Divine and Moral Songs - For the Use of Children</span> [New York, Mahlon Day, 374 Pearl Street, 1836], page 15. Accessed at the "Origins of Baseball" file at the Giamatti Center in Cooperstown.</p> | ||
<p> | <p>David Block, (see <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Baseball Before We Knew It</span>, page 196), has found an 1833 edition.</p> | ||
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|Comment=<p>Is it wicket? Base-ball?</p> | |Comment=<p>Is it wicket? Base-ball?</p> | ||
<p>Here's Block's commentary. " . . .an interesting woodcut portraying boys playing a slightly ambiguous bat-and-ball game that is possibly baseball . . . . A goal in the ground near the batter might be a wicket, but it more closely resembles an early baseball goal such as the one pictured in <span>A Little Pretty Pocket-Book</span>" (see #1744.2, above).</p> | <p>Here's Block's commentary. " . . .an interesting woodcut portraying boys playing a slightly ambiguous bat-and-ball game that is possibly baseball . . . . A goal in the ground near the batter might be a wicket, but it more closely resembles an early baseball goal such as the one pictured in <span>A Little Pretty Pocket-Book</span>" (see #1744.2, above).</p> | ||
|Query= | |Query=<p>Is the drawing associated with a song that may offer a clue? </p> | ||
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A songbook drawing shows five children - a tosser, batter, two fielders, and boy waiting to bat. The bats are spoon-shaped. The wicket looks more like an upright cricket wicket than the long low bar associated with US wicket. |
| Sources | Watts' Divine and Moral Songs - For the Use of Children [New York, Mahlon Day, 374 Pearl Street, 1836], page 15. Accessed at the "Origins of Baseball" file at the Giamatti Center in Cooperstown. David Block, (see Baseball Before We Knew It, page 196), has found an 1833 edition. |
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| Comment | Is it wicket? Base-ball? Here's Block's commentary. " . . .an interesting woodcut portraying boys playing a slightly ambiguous bat-and-ball game that is possibly baseball . . . . A goal in the ground near the batter might be a wicket, but it more closely resembles an early baseball goal such as the one pictured in A Little Pretty Pocket-Book" (see #1744.2, above). Edit with form to add a comment |
| Query | Is the drawing associated with a song that may offer a clue? Edit with form to add a query |
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