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|Year=1855 | |Year=1855 | ||
|Year Number=18 | |||
|Headline=Stodgy Novel Makes Brief Mention of Former Ballplaying | |Headline=Stodgy Novel Makes Brief Mention of Former Ballplaying | ||
|Salience=2 | |Salience=2 | ||
|Game=Base Ball | |Game=Base Ball | ||
|Text=<p>"The academy, the village church, and the parsonage are on this cross-street. The voice of memory asks, where are those whose busy feet have trodden the green sward? Where are those whose voices have echoed in the boisterous mirth or base-ball and shinny?" S. H. M. (only initials are given), <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Miranda Elliot: or, The Voice of the Spirit</span> (Lippincott, Grambo & Co., Philadelphia, 1855), page 229. This passage involves a small party's slow country walk, one that is incessantly interrupted by a sermonizing narrator. There is no indication of who played ball, or how long ago they played. The setting seems to be the U.S; some place where orange trees grow.</p> | |Text=<p>"The academy, the village church, and the parsonage are on this cross-street. The voice of memory asks, where are those whose busy feet have trodden the green sward? Where are those whose voices have echoed in the boisterous mirth or base-ball and shinny?" S. H. M. (only initials are given), <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Miranda Elliot: or, The Voice of the Spirit</span> (Lippincott, Grambo & Co., Philadelphia, 1855), page 229. This passage involves a small party's slow country walk, one that is incessantly interrupted by a sermonizing narrator. There is no indication of who played ball, or how long ago they played. The setting seems to be the U.S; some place where orange trees grow.</p> | ||
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| Text | "The academy, the village church, and the parsonage are on this cross-street. The voice of memory asks, where are those whose busy feet have trodden the green sward? Where are those whose voices have echoed in the boisterous mirth or base-ball and shinny?" S. H. M. (only initials are given), Miranda Elliot: or, The Voice of the Spirit (Lippincott, Grambo & Co., Philadelphia, 1855), page 229. This passage involves a small party's slow country walk, one that is incessantly interrupted by a sermonizing narrator. There is no indication of who played ball, or how long ago they played. The setting seems to be the U.S; some place where orange trees grow.
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