1854.23
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Ah, Spring! Base-ball! Wicket! Gould! (Gould?)
| Salience | Peripheral |
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| Tags | Newspaper Coverage, Pre-modern RulesNewspaper Coverage, Pre-modern Rules |
| Location | |
| City/State/Country: | Albany, NY, United States |
| Modern Address | |
| Game | base-ball, . wicket, "gould" (goal?)base-ball, . wicket, "gould" (goal?) |
| Immediacy of Report | Contemporary |
| Age of Players | JuvenileJuvenile |
| Holiday | |
| Notables | |
| Text | "Go out into the glorious sunlight, little children, into the free warm air. Frolic and play, roll your hoops, and jump your rope, little girl, and throw the ball, and run races and play gould [sic] and base-ball, and over the house, and wicket, little boys. Be happy, and merry, and lively, and jolly, little children. Call back to your cheek the red flush of health and beauty. Be not afraid of the sunlight, though it darken the whiteness of your brow. Let the south wind play upon your cheek, though it brings a freckle upon your bright young face. A little while, and you can go out into the fields, and wander over the meadows and along the pleasant brooks, culling the wild flowers, and hearing the glad songs of the spring birds, as they sport among the branches of the trees above you. The glorious Spring Time is Come. There will be no more bleak storms, no more chill snows, no more cold north winds. The winter is over and gone. The time of glad blossoms and sweet flowers, and green leaves, is at hand." |
| Sources | Daily Commercial Register (Sandusky, Ohio) April 27, 1854, quoting the Albany Register. |
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| Comment | Edit with form to add a comment |
| Query | Is it fair to suppose that the Register was published in Albany NY? There was a paper there of that name in the 1850s (per internet search of 11/2/2020). Is the game of gould known? Was it a base-running game? Is wicket play east of MA known? Is its play by little boys known? Edit with form to add a query |
| Source Image | [[Image:|left|thumb]] |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Submission Note | Email of 11/2/2020 |
| Has Supplemental Text |
1854.23 Ah, Spring! Base-ball! Wicket! Gould! (Gould?)"
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