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|Year=1848 | |||
|Year Number=5 | |||
|Headline=New York Book of Games Covers Stool-ball, Rounders | |Headline=New York Book of Games Covers Stool-ball, Rounders | ||
|Salience=2 | |Salience=2 | ||
|Game=Rounders | |Game=Rounders | ||
|Text=<p> | |Text=<p>A large section of "The Boy's Book of Sports," attributed to "Uncle John," describes more than 200 games, including trap-ball, rounders, and stool-ball.</p> | ||
<p>David Block notes that "The version of rounders the book presents is generally consistent with others from the period, with perhaps a little more detail than most. It specifies the number of bases as four or five and describes a bat of only two feet in length." Given the choice of games included [and, perhaps, the exclusion of familiar American games], he believes the author is English, "[y]et I find no evidence of its publication in Great Britain prior to [1848]." This 184-page section was apparently later published in London in 1850 and in Philadelphia in 1851; see [[1851.9]] below.</p> | |||
|Sources=<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Boy's Own Book of Sports, Birds, and Animals</span> [New York, Leavitt and Allen, 1848], per David Block, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Baseball Before We Knew It</span>, pages 209-210.</p> | |||
|Query=<p>The 1851 edition includes a game that appears to be wicket, but which the authors calls cricket. Is that section missing from he 1848 edition?</p> | |||
|Reviewed=Yes | |Reviewed=Yes | ||
| | |Has Supplemental Text=No | ||
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| Text | A large section of "The Boy's Book of Sports," attributed to "Uncle John," describes more than 200 games, including trap-ball, rounders, and stool-ball. David Block notes that "The version of rounders the book presents is generally consistent with others from the period, with perhaps a little more detail than most. It specifies the number of bases as four or five and describes a bat of only two feet in length." Given the choice of games included [and, perhaps, the exclusion of familiar American games], he believes the author is English, "[y]et I find no evidence of its publication in Great Britain prior to [1848]." This 184-page section was apparently later published in London in 1850 and in Philadelphia in 1851; see 1851.9 below. |
| Sources | Boy's Own Book of Sports, Birds, and Animals [New York, Leavitt and Allen, 1848], per David Block, Baseball Before We Knew It, pages 209-210. |
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| Query | The 1851 edition includes a game that appears to be wicket, but which the authors calls cricket. Is that section missing from he 1848 edition? Edit with form to add a query |
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1848.5 New York Book of Games Covers Stool-ball, Rounders"
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