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|Headline=New York Book of Games Covers Stool-ball, Rounders | |Headline=New York Book of Games Covers Stool-ball, Rounders | ||
|Year=1848 | |Year=1848 | ||
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|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><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> | ||
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| Text | Boy's Own Book of Sports, Birds, and Animals [New York, Leavitt and Allen], per David Block, Baseball Before We Knew It, 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. |
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