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|Year=1855
|Year Number=18
|Headline=Stodgy Novel Makes Brief Mention of Former Ballplaying
|Headline=Stodgy Novel Makes Brief Mention of Former Ballplaying
|Year=1855
|Salience=2
|Is in main chronology=yes
|Location=US,
|Game=Base Ball
|Game=Base Ball
|Text=<p>"The academy, the village church, and the parsonage are on this cross-street. The voice of memory asks, where are those whose busy feet have trodden the green sward? Where are those whose voices have echoed in the boisterous mirth or base-ball and shinny?" S. H. M. (only initials are given), <u>Miranda Elliot: or, The Voice of the Spirit</u> (Lippincott, Grambo &amp; Co., Philadelphia, 1855), page 229. This passage involves a small party's slow country walk, one that is incessantly interrupted by a sermonizing narrator. There is no indication of who played ball, or how long ago they played. The setting seems to be the U.S; some place where orange trees grow.</p>
|Text=<p>"The academy, the village church, and the parsonage are on this cross-street. The voice of memory asks, where are those whose busy feet have trodden the green sward? Where are those whose voices have echoed in the boisterous mirth or base-ball and shinny?"&nbsp;</p>
<p>1855.19 - Clipper Editor:  NYC Now Has Five Clubs "in Good Condition"</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>In March 1855, the editor of the <i>Clipper</i> listed five teams that were "in good condition" and the locations of their twice-a-week practices - Gothams at Red House, Harlem; Knickerbockers, Eagle, and Empire at Elysian Fields at Hoboken , and the Excelsiors in Brooklyn.  <u>New York</u><u>Clipper</u><i>,</i> March 3, 1855; provided September 2008 from the Mears Collection by Craig Waff. </p>
|Sources=<p>S. H. M. (only initials are given), <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Miranda Elliot: or, The Voice of the Spirit</span> (Lippincott, Grambo &amp; Co., Philadelphia, 1855), page 229.</p>
<p>Articles published later in the <u>New York Clipper</u><i>,</i> the <u>Spirit of the Times</u><i>,</i> the <u>New-York Daily Times</u><i>,</i> and the <u>Brooklyn Daily Eagle</u> announced the first appearance in print of the following 18 new clubs in the Greater NYC region in 1855: </p>
|Comment=<p>This passage involves a small party's slow country walk, one that is incessantly interrupted by a sermonizing narrator. There is no indication of who played ball, or how long ago they played. The setting seems to be the U.S; some place where orange trees grow.</p>
<p><i>June</i> - Jersey City (Jersey City NJ)  ||  <i>July</i> - Putnam (East Brooklyn), Astoria (Astoria), Newark (Newark NJ) Olympic (Newark NJ), Union (Morrisania), Excelsior (Jersey City NJ), Columbia (Brooklyn, Eastern District)  ||  <i>August</i> - Washington (Brooklyn, Eastern District), Eckford (New York, but practicing in Brooklyn, Eastern District), Pioneer (Jersey City NJ), Atlantic (Bedford)  || <i>September</i> - Pavonia (Jersey City NJ), Harmony (East Brooklyn)  ||  <i>October</i> - Young America (Morrisania), Empire (Newark NJ), Newark Jr. (Newark)  ||  <i>November</i> - Continental (East Brooklyn), Baltic (New York).  List supplied by Craig Waff, 10/30/2008.</p>
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|Has Supplemental Text=No
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"The academy, the village church, and the parsonage are on this cross-street. The voice of memory asks, where are those whose busy feet have trodden the green sward? Where are those whose voices have echoed in the boisterous mirth or base-ball and shinny?" 

 

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S. H. M. (only initials are given), Miranda Elliot: or, The Voice of the Spirit (Lippincott, Grambo & Co., Philadelphia, 1855), page 229.

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This passage involves a small party's slow country walk, one that is incessantly interrupted by a sermonizing narrator. There is no indication of who played ball, or how long ago they played. The setting seems to be the U.S; some place where orange trees grow.

 

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