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|Year=1751 | |Year=1751 | ||
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|Year Number=2 | |||
|Headline=Cricket Lore: Ball Kills the Prince of Wales, Pretty Slowly | |||
|Salience=2 | |Salience=2 | ||
|Tags=Hazard, | |Tags=Famous, Hazard, | ||
|Text=<p>RIP, sweet Prince. | |Location= | ||
<p> | |Country=England | ||
<p> | |Coordinates=51.5073509, -0.1277583 | ||
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|City=London | |||
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|Game=Cricket | |||
|Immediacy of Report=Contemporary | |||
|Age of Players=Adult | |||
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|Text=<p>RIP, sweet Prince. [The prince was the father of King George III.]</p> | |||
<p><strong>[A] </strong>"Death of Frederick Lewis, Prince of Wales, as a result of a blow on the head from a cricket ball." </p> | |||
<p><strong>[B] </strong> "It's generally said his late Royal Highness the Prince of Wales got a Blow on his Side with a Ball about two Years ago, playing at Cricket, which diversion he was fond of, and 'tis thought was the Occasion of his Death . . . ."</p> | |||
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|Sources=<p><strong>[A]</strong> John Ford, Cricket: A Social History 1700-1835 [David and Charles, 1972], page 17. Ford does not give a citation.</p> | |||
<p><strong>[B]</strong> <em>London Advertiser</em>, March 26, 1751.</p> | |||
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|Comment=<p>In <span style="text-decoration-line: underline;">Pastime Lost</span> (U Nebraska Press, 2019, p 26), David Block writes that "Whether Frederick's death was the consequence of a lingering cricket injury has been the subject of debate ever since, with most modern observers . . . expressing skepticism." Today, some fans of the old game of Royal tennis believe that it was a (stuffed) tennis ball that felled the Prince.</p> | |||
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|Submitted by=David Block | |||
|Submission Note=Email of 9/16/2020 | |||
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| Tags | Famous, HazardFamous, Hazard |
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| City/State/Country: | London, England |
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| Text | RIP, sweet Prince. [The prince was the father of King George III.] [A] "Death of Frederick Lewis, Prince of Wales, as a result of a blow on the head from a cricket ball." [B] "It's generally said his late Royal Highness the Prince of Wales got a Blow on his Side with a Ball about two Years ago, playing at Cricket, which diversion he was fond of, and 'tis thought was the Occasion of his Death . . . ."
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| Sources | [A] John Ford, Cricket: A Social History 1700-1835 [David and Charles, 1972], page 17. Ford does not give a citation. [B] London Advertiser, March 26, 1751.
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| Comment | In Pastime Lost (U Nebraska Press, 2019, p 26), David Block writes that "Whether Frederick's death was the consequence of a lingering cricket injury has been the subject of debate ever since, with most modern observers . . . expressing skepticism." Today, some fans of the old game of Royal tennis believe that it was a (stuffed) tennis ball that felled the Prince.
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| Submitted by | David Block |
| Submission Note | Email of 9/16/2020 |
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