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{{Chronology Entry
{{Chronology Entry
|Year=1845
|Year=1844
|Year Number=26
|Year Suffix=
|Headline=Melville (Maybe) Describes Baseball Game Poetically
|Year Number=18
|Salience=3
|Headline=Springtime Ballplaying on the Common -- by Girls
|Tags=Ball in the Culture,  
|Salience=2
|Country=USA
|Tags=Females,  
|Location=
|Country=United States
|Coordinates=42.3600825, -71.0588801
|State=MA
|State=MA
|Game=Base Ball,
|City=Boston
|Modern Address=
|Game=Round Ball
|Immediacy of Report=Contemporary
|Immediacy of Report=Contemporary
|Age of Players=Juvenile
|Age of Players=Youth
|Text=<p><span>And now hurrah! for the speeding ball</span><br /><span>Is flung in viewless air,</span><br /><span>And where it will strike in its rapid fall</span><br /><span>The boys are hastening there--</span><br /><span>And the parted lip and the eager eye</span><br /><span>Are following its descent,</span><br /><span>Whilst the baffl'd stumbler's falling cry</span><br /><span>With th'exulting shout is blent.</span><br /><span>The leader now of either band</span><br /><span>Picks cautiously his men,</span><br /><span>And the quickest foot and the roughest hand</span><br /><span>Are what he chooses then.</span><br /><span>And see!the ball with swift rebound,</span><br /><span>Flies from the swinging bat,</span><br /><span>While the player spurns the beaten ground,</span><br /><span>Nor heeds his wind-caught hat.</span><br /><span>But the ball is stopp'd in its quick career,</span><br /><span>And is sent with a well-aim'd fling,</span><br /><span>And he dodges to feel it whistling near,</span><br /><span>Or leaps at its sudden sting,</span><br /><span>Whilst the shot is hail'd with a hearty shout,</span><br /><span>As the wounded one stops short,</span><br /><span>For his 'side' by the luckless blow is out--</span><br /><span>And the others wait their sport.</span></p>
|Holiday=
|Sources=<p><span>This poem, published&nbsp;</span><span>pseudonymously as the work of "William M. Christy" in 1845, is Melville's&nbsp;</span><span>first published book, per Melville scholar&nbsp;<span>Jeanne C. Howes, author of a monograph entitled '"Poet of a&nbsp;</span><span>Morning: Herman Melville and the 'Redburn Poem': Redburn: Or the&nbsp;</span><span>Schoolmaster of a Morning". 19cbb post by John Thorn, July 6, 2004</span></span></p>
|Notables=
|Warning=<p><span>In the case of the Redburn</span><br /><span>poem, a strong competing interpretation concludes that HM is not</span><br /><span>its author. I can't argue either side of Howes' hypothesis since</span><br /><span>I have not read her work, and I only have a couple hundred words</span><br /><span>of notes on the topic, but I think we all readily understand that</span><br /><span>the attribution of Melville as author of this four canto poem is</span><br /><span>not universally accepted." 19cbb post by Stephen Hoy, July 6, 2004</span></p>
|Text=<p>"Girls of fourteen -- daughters of plebeians -- play round ball on the Common.&nbsp; It is a free exercise."</p>
|Submitted by=Bob Tholkes,
|Sources=<p><em>Boston Post,&nbsp;</em>April 24, 1844, page 2, column 2.</p>
|Submission Note=2/12/2015
|Warning=
|Comment=<p>By "plebeian," the writer presumably meant "not upper-class."</p>
|Query=<p>Did "It is a free exercise" mean roughly what it means today?&nbsp;</p>
|Source Image=
|External Number=
|Submitted by=David Block
|Submission Note=Email of 3/28/2020
|Reviewed=Yes
|Has Supplemental Text=No
|Has Supplemental Text=No
}}
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Springtime Ballplaying on the Common -- by Girls

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City/State/Country: Boston, MA, United States
Game Round Ball
Immediacy of Report Contemporary
Age of Players Youth
Text

"Girls of fourteen -- daughters of plebeians -- play round ball on the Common.  It is a free exercise."

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Boston Post, April 24, 1844, page 2, column 2.

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By "plebeian," the writer presumably meant "not upper-class."

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Did "It is a free exercise" mean roughly what it means today? 

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Submitted by David Block
Submission Note Email of 3/28/2020


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