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|Term=Touch-the-Base
|Term=Touch-the-Base
|Game Family=Hook-em-snivy
|Game Family=Hook-em-snivy
|Description=<p>Writing of the Ohio youth of a Civil War general in about 1840, Whitelaw Reid (1868) reported that “Touch-the-Base” was the favorite game, and of all who engaged in the romp, none were more eager or happy than ‘Jimmy” (the late Major-General James McPherson). We cannot be sure that this was a ball game.</p>
|Game Eras=Predecessor
|Sources=<p>Whitelaw Reid, <em>Ohio</em><em> in the War</em><span> (Moore, Wilstach and Baldwin, Cincinnati, 1868), page 562.</span></p>
|Invented Game=No
|Description=<p>Writing of the Ohio youth of a Civil War general in about 1840, Whitelaw Reid (1868) reported that &ldquo;Touch-the-Base&rdquo; was the favorite game, and of all who engaged in the romp, none were more eager or happy than &lsquo;Jimmy&rdquo; (the late Major-General James McPherson). We cannot be sure that this was a ball game.</p>
|Sources=<p>Whitelaw Reid,&nbsp;<em>Ohio</em><em>&nbsp;in the War</em><span>&nbsp;(Moore, Wilstach and Baldwin, Cincinnati, 1868), page 562.</span></p>
<p><span>See also PBall Chronology entry #[[1840c.37]]<br /></span></p>
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Writing of the Ohio youth of a Civil War general in about 1840, Whitelaw Reid (1868) reported that “Touch-the-Base” was the favorite game, and of all who engaged in the romp, none were more eager or happy than ‘Jimmy” (the late Major-General James McPherson). We cannot be sure that this was a ball game.

Sources

Whitelaw Reid, Ohio in the War (Moore, Wilstach and Baldwin, Cincinnati, 1868), page 562.

See also PBall Chronology entry #1840c.37

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