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|Headline=Dickens Names Cricket, but not Stoolball or Rounders, Among "Merriest" Games | |Headline=Dickens Names Cricket, but not Stoolball or Rounders, Among "Merriest" Games | ||
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|Submitted by=Bruce Allardice | |Submitted by=Bruce Allardice | ||
|Submission Note=Email of 3/ | |Submission Note=Email of 3/21/2021. | ||
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Dickens Names Cricket, but not Stoolball or Rounders, Among "Merriest" Games
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Tags | Famous, FictionFamous, Fiction |
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City/State/Country: | England |
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Game | Cricket, RoundersCricket, Rounders |
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Age of Players | YouthYouth |
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Notables | Charles Dickens |
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[In a Dickens short story, a traveler meets a handsome youth, and they spend time together.] "They had the merriest games that were ever played . . . They were active afoot, and on horseback; 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" 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 another Dickens reference to people "playing at ball," but the site was apparently known as a racket ground, may not have have involved a baserunning game. Edit with form to add a comment |
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Submitted by | Bruce Allardice |
Submission Note | Email of 3/21/2021. |
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