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Dickens Names, but not StoolbalL or Rounders, Among Play Options.
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City/State/Country: | England |
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Game | CricketCricket |
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"They were active ... at cricket and all games of ball; the prisoners base, hare and hounds, follow up leader, and more sports than I can think of." |
Sources | Charles Dickens, "The Child's Story" (1852). See also Dickens on ballplaying at pp 128, 212, and 271 (note) of David Block, Pastime Lost (U Nebraska Press, 2019). |
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Comment | "David Block's book Pastimes Lost cites Dickens mentioning games of ball in his letters and in reported Bruce Allardice, 3/24/2021. Dickens did mention rounders in an 1849 letter to an acquaintance during a holiday at the Isle of Wight: "I . . . have had a great game of rounders every afternoon." (Block, pp. 212 and 271.) Block also notes a Dickens reference to people "playing at ball," but the site was apparently known as a racket ground, and may not have been a baserunning game. Edit with form to add a comment |
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Submitted by | Bruce Allardice |
Submission Note | Email of 3/24/2021. |
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