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|Text=<p>"Town-ball is one of the old games from which the scientific but not half so amusing "national game" of base-ball has since evolved. . .  .  There were no scores, but a catch or a cross-out in town-ball put the whole side out, leaving others to take the bat or "paddle" as it was appropriately called."</p>
|Text=<p>"Town-ball is one of the old games from which the scientific but not half so amusing "national game" of base-ball has since evolved. . .  .  There were no scores, but a catch or a cross-out in town-ball put the whole side out, leaving others to take the bat or "paddle" as it was appropriately called."</p>
<p>Edward Eggleston, "Some Western School-Masters," <i>Scribner's Monthly,</i> March 1879. Submitted by David Nevard, 1/26/2007.  David notes that this is mainly a story about boys tarrying at recess, and can be dated 1845-1850.  In other games, a "cross-out" denotes the retiring of a runner by throwing the ball across his forward path.  Contemporary Georgia townball [see #1840.24 above] often used paddles.  Egglestoiin was an Hoosier historian and novelist.  <b>Note: </b> "No scores? </p>
<p>Edward Eggleston, "Some Western School-Masters," <i>Scribner's Monthly,</i> March 1879. Submitted by David Nevard, 1/26/2007.  David notes that this is mainly a story about boys tarrying at recess, and can be dated 1845-1850.  In other games, a "cross-out" denotes the retiring of a runner by throwing the ball across his forward path.  Contemporary Georgia townball [see #1840.24 above] often used paddles.  Egglestoiin was an Hoosier historian and novelist.  <b>Note: </b> "No scores? </p>
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"Town-ball is one of the old games from which the scientific but not half so amusing "national game" of base-ball has since evolved. . . . There were no scores, but a catch or a cross-out in town-ball put the whole side out, leaving others to take the bat or "paddle" as it was appropriately called."

Edward Eggleston, "Some Western School-Masters," Scribner's Monthly, March 1879. Submitted by David Nevard, 1/26/2007. David notes that this is mainly a story about boys tarrying at recess, and can be dated 1845-1850. In other games, a "cross-out" denotes the retiring of a runner by throwing the ball across his forward path. Contemporary Georgia townball [see #1840.24 above] often used paddles. Egglestoiin was an Hoosier historian and novelist. Note: "No scores?

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