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Boston Spelling/Reading Book Describes Cricket and "Playing at Ball"

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Text	The Child's Own Book [Boston, Munroe and Francis], four parts, per David Block, Baseball Before We Knew It, page 194. In part four, cricket play is treated in some detail, and a small woodcut of ball play has the caption, "This picture is intended to represent the Franklin school house in Boston. It is now recess time, and some lads are playing at ball on the green lawn before the portico of the brick building."
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 |Text=<p><u>The Child's Own Book</u> [Boston, Munroe and Francis], four parts, per David Block, <u>Baseball Before We Knew It</u>, page 194.  In part four, cricket play is treated in some detail, and a small woodcut of ball play has the caption, "This picture is intended to represent the Franklin school house in Boston.  It is now recess time, and some lads are playing at ball on the green lawn before the portico of the brick building."</p>
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