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Pastime of Despots

Salience Peripheral
Tags Famous
Location Italy
City/State/Country: Kingdom of Naples, Italy
Immediacy of Report Contemporary
Age of Players Adult
Notables King Ferdinand II
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"Description of a Modern Tyrant" (Ferdinand II of the Kingdom of Naples) ...his favorite old games, foot-racing and tumbling, base ball and wrestling..." Describes Ferdinand as "the scoundrel king of Naples."

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Newark Advertiser, Dec. 21, 1855; by an unidentified correspondent in Rome. Summarized in Originals, Newsletter of the Origins Committee of SABR, Vol. 3 no. 11, Nov. 2010.

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