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|Text=<p>A character is asked how he might raise some needed money: "If my woodes being cut down cannot fill this pocket, cut 'em into trapsticks."</p> | |Text=<p>A character is asked how he might raise some needed money: "If my woodes being cut down cannot fill this pocket, cut 'em into trapsticks."</p> | ||
<p>Middleton, Thomas, and William Rowley, <u>The Spanish Gipsie</u> [London], per David Block, <u>Baseball Before We Knew It</u>, page 172. Block observes that this snippet suggests that "trapstick" was by then commonly understood as a trap-ball bat.</p> | <p>Middleton, Thomas, and William Rowley, <u>The Spanish Gipsie</u> [London], per David Block, <u>Baseball Before We Knew It</u>, page 172. Block observes that this snippet suggests that "trapstick" was by then commonly understood as a trap-ball bat.</p> | ||
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| Text | A character is asked how he might raise some needed money: "If my woodes being cut down cannot fill this pocket, cut 'em into trapsticks." Middleton, Thomas, and William Rowley, The Spanish Gipsie [London], per David Block, Baseball Before We Knew It, page 172. Block observes that this snippet suggests that "trapstick" was by then commonly understood as a trap-ball bat. |
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