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{{Chronology Entry
|Year=1806
|Year Number=1
|Headline=British Children's Book Includes Scene of "Trap and Ball"
|Headline=British Children's Book Includes Scene of "Trap and Ball"
|Year=1806
|Salience=2
|Salience=2
|Text=<p>English, Clara, <u>The Children in the Wood, an Instructive Tale</u> [Warner and Hanna, Baltimore, 1806], p. 29. Per Thomas L. Altherr, "A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball," reprinted in David Block, <u>Baseball Before We Knew It,</u> ref # 56.</p>
|Country=England
|Coordinates=52.3555177, -1.1743197
|Immediacy of Report=Contemporary
|Age of Players=Juvenile
|Text=<p>"Edgar and Jane, the protagonists of a British children's book&nbsp; published in 1806 in Baltimore,&nbsp;<span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Children in the Wood</span>, wanndered into a Briotish town where children were playing at trap and ball.</p>
|Sources=<p>English, Clara,&nbsp;<span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Children in the Wood, an Instructive Tale</span>&nbsp;[Warner and Hanna, Baltimore, 1806], p. 29. Per Thomas L. Altherr, "A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball," reprinted in David Block,&nbsp;<span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Baseball before We Knew It</span>,</span>&nbsp;See page 241 and ref #57.</p>
|Comment=<p>Trap and ball is not known to be a base-running game.</p>
|Reviewed=Yes
|Has Supplemental Text=No
}}
}}

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British Children's Book Includes Scene of "Trap and Ball"

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City/State/Country: England
Immediacy of Report Contemporary
Age of Players Juvenile
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"Edgar and Jane, the protagonists of a British children's book  published in 1806 in Baltimore, The Children in the Wood, wanndered into a Briotish town where children were playing at trap and ball.

Sources

English, Clara, The Children in the Wood, an Instructive Tale [Warner and Hanna, Baltimore, 1806], p. 29. Per Thomas L. Altherr, "A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball," reprinted in David Block, Baseball before We Knew It, See page 241 and ref #57.

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Trap and ball is not known to be a base-running game.

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