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{{Chronology Entry
|Year=1848
|Year Number=5
|Headline=New York Book of Games Covers Stool-ball, Rounders
|Headline=New York Book of Games Covers Stool-ball, Rounders
|Year=1848
|Salience=2
|Salience=2
|Game=Rounders
|Game=Rounders
|Text=<p><u>Boy's Own Book of Sports, Birds, and Animals</u> [New York, Leavitt and Allen], per David Block, <u>Baseball Before We Knew It</u>, page 209-210.  In this book's large section, "The Boy's Book of Sports and Games," attributed to "Uncle John," more than 200 games are described, including trap-ball, rounders, and stool-ball. Block notes that "The version of rounders the book presents is generally consistent with others from the period, with perhaps a little more detail than most. It specifies the number of bases as four or five and describes a bat of only two feet in length." Given the choice of games included [and, probably, the exclusion of familiar American games], he believes the author is English, "[y]et I find no evidence of its publication in Great Britain prior to [1848]." This 184-page section was later published in London in 1850 and in Philadelphia in 1851.</p>
|Text=<p>A large section of "The Boy's Book of Sports," attributed to "Uncle John," describes more than 200 games, including trap-ball, rounders, and stool-ball.</p>
<p>David Block notes that "The version of rounders the book presents is generally consistent with others from the period, with perhaps a little more detail than most. It specifies the number of bases as four or five and describes a bat of only two feet in length." Given the choice of games included [and, perhaps, the exclusion of familiar American games], he believes the author is English, "[y]et I find no evidence of its publication in Great Britain prior to [1848]." This 184-page section was apparently&nbsp;later published in London in 1850 and in Philadelphia in 1851; see [[1851.9]] below.</p>
|Sources=<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Boy's Own Book of Sports, Birds, and Animals</span> [New York, Leavitt and Allen, 1848], per David Block, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Baseball Before We Knew It</span>, pages 209-210.</p>
|Query=<p>The 1851 edition includes a game that appears to be wicket, but which the authors calls cricket.&nbsp; Is that section missing from he 1848 edition?</p>
|Reviewed=Yes
|Reviewed=Yes
|Year Number=5
|Has Supplemental Text=No
}}
}}

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A large section of "The Boy's Book of Sports," attributed to "Uncle John," describes more than 200 games, including trap-ball, rounders, and stool-ball.

David Block notes that "The version of rounders the book presents is generally consistent with others from the period, with perhaps a little more detail than most. It specifies the number of bases as four or five and describes a bat of only two feet in length." Given the choice of games included [and, perhaps, the exclusion of familiar American games], he believes the author is English, "[y]et I find no evidence of its publication in Great Britain prior to [1848]." This 184-page section was apparently later published in London in 1850 and in Philadelphia in 1851; see 1851.9 below.

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Boy's Own Book of Sports, Birds, and Animals [New York, Leavitt and Allen, 1848], per David Block, Baseball Before We Knew It, pages 209-210.

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The 1851 edition includes a game that appears to be wicket, but which the authors calls cricket.  Is that section missing from he 1848 edition?

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