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|Year=1840 | |Year=1840 | ||
|Year Suffix=s | |Year Suffix=s | ||
|Year Number=31 | |||
|Headline=Lem: Juvenile Fiction's Boy Who Loved Round-ball | |||
|Salience=2 | |Salience=2 | ||
|Tags=Holidays, | |Tags=Fiction, Holidays, | ||
|Text=<p>Noah Brookes, < | |Text=<p>Noah Brookes, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Lem: A New England Village Boy: His Adventures and his Mishaps</span> (Scribner's Sons, New York, 1901). Accessed 11/15/2008 via Google Books search "Lem boy." Lem may be fiction's only round-ball hero.</p> | ||
<p>On pages 93-97, the novel lays out the game that was played by Lem [born 1830] and his playmates, which seems to follow the customs of the Massachusetts game, but without stakes as bases. The passage includes a field diagram, some terminology ["the bases . . . were four in number, and were called 'gools,' a word which probably came from 'goals.'"], and ballmaking technique. | <p>On pages 93-97, the novel lays out the game that was played by Lem [born 1830] and his playmates, which seems to follow the customs of the Massachusetts game, but without stakes as bases. The passage includes a field diagram, some terminology ["the bases . . . were four in number, and were called 'gools,' a word which probably came from 'goals.'"], and ballmaking technique. Lem is, alas, sidelined for the season when he is plugged "in the hollow of the leg" while gool-running [Page 97] Other references:</p> | ||
<p>On spring, pp 92-93: | <p>On spring, pp 92-93: "Ball-playing began early in the spring; [p92/93] it was the first of the summer games to come out.</p> | ||
<p>On Fast Day, p. 93: | <p>On Fast Day, p. 93: "I am afraid that Lem's only notion of Fast Day was that that was the long-expected day when, for the first time that year, a game of ball was played on the Common."</p> | ||
<p>On the pleasant effects of a change in the path of the Gulf Stream, pp. 228-229: "no slushy streets, and above all, no cold barns to go into to feed turnips to the cold cows! | <p>On the pleasant effects of a change in the path of the Gulf Stream, pp. 228-229: "no slushy streets, and above all, no cold barns to go into to feed turnips to the cold cows! A land where top-time, kite-[p228/229] time, and round-ball-time would always be in season. Think of it!"</p> | ||
<p>On making teams for simulating Revolutionary War tussles, p. 107: "We can't all be Americans; and we have agreed to choose sides, as we do in round ball."</p> | <p>On making teams for simulating Revolutionary War tussles, p. 107: "We can't all be Americans; and we have agreed to choose sides, as we do in round ball."</p> | ||
<p>< | <p><strong>Note</strong>: we welcome comment on the authenticity of Brooks' depiction of ballplaying in the 1840s, and whether how the game depicted compares to the MA game.</p> | ||
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| Text | Noah Brookes, Lem: A New England Village Boy: His Adventures and his Mishaps (Scribner's Sons, New York, 1901). Accessed 11/15/2008 via Google Books search "Lem boy." Lem may be fiction's only round-ball hero. On pages 93-97, the novel lays out the game that was played by Lem [born 1830] and his playmates, which seems to follow the customs of the Massachusetts game, but without stakes as bases. The passage includes a field diagram, some terminology ["the bases . . . were four in number, and were called 'gools,' a word which probably came from 'goals.'"], and ballmaking technique. Lem is, alas, sidelined for the season when he is plugged "in the hollow of the leg" while gool-running [Page 97] Other references: On spring, pp 92-93: "Ball-playing began early in the spring; [p92/93] it was the first of the summer games to come out. On Fast Day, p. 93: "I am afraid that Lem's only notion of Fast Day was that that was the long-expected day when, for the first time that year, a game of ball was played on the Common." On the pleasant effects of a change in the path of the Gulf Stream, pp. 228-229: "no slushy streets, and above all, no cold barns to go into to feed turnips to the cold cows! A land where top-time, kite-[p228/229] time, and round-ball-time would always be in season. Think of it!" On making teams for simulating Revolutionary War tussles, p. 107: "We can't all be Americans; and we have agreed to choose sides, as we do in round ball." Note: we welcome comment on the authenticity of Brooks' depiction of ballplaying in the 1840s, and whether how the game depicted compares to the MA game. |
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