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{{Chronology Entry | {{Chronology Entry | ||
|Year=1840 | |Year=1840 | ||
|Year Suffix=c | |Year Suffix=c | ||
| | |Year Number=17 | ||
|Headline=Town Ball and Ballmaking in OH | |||
|Salience=2 | |||
|Location= | |||
|Country=United States | |||
|Coordinates=40.4172871, -82.90712300000001 | |||
|State=OH | |||
|City= | |||
|Modern Address= | |||
|Game=Town Ball | |Game=Town Ball | ||
|Text=<p>"Among the favorite games engaged in my the larger boys, special mention may be made of 'Three Corner Cat,' and of 'Town Ball,' the latter sport being a simple form of what has developed into the national game of baseball. | |Immediacy of Report= | ||
<p>W. H. Venable, < | |Holiday= | ||
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|Text=<p>"Among the favorite games engaged in my the larger boys, special mention may be made of 'Three Corner Cat,' and of 'Town Ball,' the latter sport being a simple form of what has developed into the national game of baseball. Improvised playing-balls were made, not unusually, by winding strong woolen yarn tightly around a central mass of India-rubber, and covering the compact sphere with soft, tough leather cut to the proper shape by a shoemaker."</p> | |||
<p>W. H. Venable, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">A Buckeye Boyhood</span> [publisher? Date?], page 126. Seymour, Harold - Notes in the Seymour Collection at Cornell University, Kroch Library Department of Rare and Manuscript Collections, collection 4809.</p> | |||
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|Warning=<p>This is more likely a game 1855-60, played at the Ridgeville schools near Cincinnati.</p> | |||
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|Reviewed=Yes | |||
|Has Supplemental Text=No | |||
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| City/State/Country: | OH, United States |
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| Game | Town BallTown Ball |
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| Text | "Among the favorite games engaged in my the larger boys, special mention may be made of 'Three Corner Cat,' and of 'Town Ball,' the latter sport being a simple form of what has developed into the national game of baseball. Improvised playing-balls were made, not unusually, by winding strong woolen yarn tightly around a central mass of India-rubber, and covering the compact sphere with soft, tough leather cut to the proper shape by a shoemaker." W. H. Venable, A Buckeye Boyhood [publisher? Date?], page 126. Seymour, Harold - Notes in the Seymour Collection at Cornell University, Kroch Library Department of Rare and Manuscript Collections, collection 4809. |
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| Warning | This is more likely a game 1855-60, played at the Ridgeville schools near Cincinnati. |
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1840c.17 Town Ball and Ballmaking in OH"
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