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Stoolball in Selmeston
| Salience | Noteworthy |
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| City/State/Country: | Selmeston, England |
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| Game | StoolballStoolball |
| Immediacy of Report | Retrospective |
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| Text | "Another early game played in Selmeston, as well as other villages in East Sussex, was stoolball (sometimes called “cricket in the air” ). This game was first recorded being played in 1450, and gets a mention in The Two Noble Kinsmen, a play attributed to John Fletcher and William Shakespeare. It is also referred to in Parish’s dictionary by the name of bittle-battle. Stoolball was probably at its height from 1866 to 1887 when the Selmeston Harvest Bugs were often matched against other local teams such as the Firle Blues, the Glynde Butterflies and the Chailey Grasshoppers. It was revived during the First World War at the Royal Brighton Pavilion Military Hospital for the injured troops, as it was not as strenuous as the proper game of cricket. Stoolball is still being played today in East Sussex and, until very recently, was a feature of the annual Selmeston Flower Show." |
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| Submitted by | Bruce Allardice |
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1866.18 Stoolball in Selmeston"
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