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|Headline=In GA, Men Played Fives, Schoolboys Played Base and Town Ball
|Year=1830
|Year=1830
|Year Suffix=s
|Year Suffix=s
|Year Number=20
|Headline=In GA, Men Played Fives, Schoolboys Played Base and Town Ball
|Salience=2
|Salience=2
|Location=US South
|Location=US South
|Country=United States
|Coordinates=32.1656221, -82.9000751
|State=GA
|Game=Town Ball
|Game=Town Ball
|Text=<p>"Men as well as boys played the competitive games of 'Long Bullets' and 'Fives,' the latter played against a battery built by nailing planks to twenty-foot poles set to make the [p31/32] 'battery' at least fifty feet wide. The school boys played 'base,' 'bull-pen,' 'town ball' and 'shinny' too." Jessie Pearl Rice, <u>J. L. M. Curry: Southerner, Statesman, and Educator</u> (King's Crown Press, New York, 1949), pages 6-7. </p>
|Age of Players=Youth, Adult
<p>Per Thomas L. Altherr, "Chucking the Old Apple: Recent Discoveries of Pre-1840 North American Ball Games," <u>Base Ball</u>, Volume 2, number 1 (Spring 2008), pages 31-32. The full text of the Rice biography is unavailable via Google Books as of 11/15/2008. Long-bullets involved distance throwing. Fives is a team game resembling one-wall hand-ball. Curry's school was in Lincoln County GA, about 30 miles NE of Augusta.</p>
|Text=<p>"Men as well as boys played the competitive games of 'Long Bullets' and 'Fives,' the latter played against a battery built by nailing planks to twenty-foot poles set to make the&nbsp; 'battery' at least fifty feet wide. The school boys played 'base,' 'bull-pen,' 'town ball' and 'shinny' too."&nbsp;</p>
|Sources=<p>Jessie Pearl Rice,&nbsp;<span style="text-decoration: underline;">J. L. M. Curry: Southerner, Statesman, and Educator</span>&nbsp;(King's Crown Press, New York, 1949), pages 6-7.&nbsp; Per Thomas L. Altherr, "Chucking the Old Apple: Recent Discoveries of Pre-1840 North American Ball Games,"&nbsp;<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Base Ball</span>, Volume 2, number 1 (Spring 2008), pages 31-32.</p>
<p>The full text of the Rice biography is unavailable via Google Books as of 11/15/2008.&nbsp;</p>
|Comment=<p>Long-bullets involved distance throwing, often along roadsides. Fives is a team game resembling one-wall hand-ball.</p>
<p>Curry's school was in Lincoln County GA, about 30 miles NE of Augusta.</p>
|Query=<p>Team hand-ball?&nbsp; Really? Wasn't it usually a one-on-one game?</p>
|Reviewed=Yes
|Reviewed=Yes
|Year Number=20
|Has Supplemental Text=No
}}
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In GA, Men Played Fives, Schoolboys Played Base and Town Ball

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Game Town Ball
Age of Players Youth, Adult
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"Men as well as boys played the competitive games of 'Long Bullets' and 'Fives,' the latter played against a battery built by nailing planks to twenty-foot poles set to make the  'battery' at least fifty feet wide. The school boys played 'base,' 'bull-pen,' 'town ball' and 'shinny' too." 

Sources

Jessie Pearl Rice, J. L. M. Curry: Southerner, Statesman, and Educator (King's Crown Press, New York, 1949), pages 6-7.  Per Thomas L. Altherr, "Chucking the Old Apple: Recent Discoveries of Pre-1840 North American Ball Games," Base Ball, Volume 2, number 1 (Spring 2008), pages 31-32.

The full text of the Rice biography is unavailable via Google Books as of 11/15/2008. 

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Long-bullets involved distance throwing, often along roadsides. Fives is a team game resembling one-wall hand-ball.

Curry's school was in Lincoln County GA, about 30 miles NE of Augusta.

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Team hand-ball?  Really? Wasn't it usually a one-on-one game?

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