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Use in VA of "base ball"
Salience | Noteworthy |
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Tags | Contemp. "Base Ball" usageContemp. "Base Ball" usage |
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City/State/Country: | Alexandria, VA, USA |
Modern Address | |
Game | Base BallBase Ball |
Immediacy of Report | Contemporary |
Age of Players | YouthYouth |
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Text | "Some of us after this engaged in a game of base ball, as a pleasant recreation." |
Sources | Memoir and Sermons of the Rev. William Duval, published in Richmond, Virginia in 1854 by his colleague the Rev. Cornelius Walker. Duval was born in 1822 outside of Richmond, and the family moved into town when he was a small child. In 1842 he entered the Virginia Theological Seminary, a major Episcopal seminary in Alexandria, Virginia. There he kept a diary. The entry above is for October 3, 1842. per 19cbb post by Richard Hershberger, July 27, 2011 |
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Comment | I have been preaching for some time now that "base ball" and "round ball" and "town ball" were regional dialectal synonyms for the same game. For the most part there is a clear division between "base ball" territory and "town ball" territory, with "town ball" being used in Pennsylvania, the Ohio River watershed, and the South. |
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Submitted by | Bob Tholkes, |
Submission Note | 2/21/2015 |
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