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Children's Book Describes Trap Ball and its Benefits

Salience Noteworthy
Game Trap Ball
Age of Players Juvenile
Text

A book published in Philadelphia and New York depicts trap ball, "one of the most pleasing sports that youth can exercise in.  It strengthens the the arms, exercises the legs [but is not a running game], and adds pleasure to the mind." 

Sources

Youthful Amusements (Johnson and Warner, Philadelphia, 1810), pp. 37 and 40. Per Thomas L. Altherr, "A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball," reprinted in David Block, Baseball before We Knew It, see page 243 and ref #62. The same text later appeared in Remarks on Children's Play (Samuel Wood and Sons, New York, 1819), p. 32. Per Altherr ref #64 in Block. This book describes thirty games and includes an engraving of trap-ball.

Comment

Tom Altherr indicates that Remarks on Children's Play (Samuel Wood and Son, New York, 1819), "repeated the same comments of the 1810 Youthful Amusements book."  See 1810.2.

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