1848.5

New York Book of Games Covers Stool-ball, Rounders

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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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