1840c.43
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Lad in Southern Illinois Played Four Old Cat
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| Text | "We played marbles and we played a game of ball in which there were four corners, four batters, and four catchers, 'for old cat' as it was then called." Fred Lockley, "Reminiscences of William H. Packwood," The Quarterly of the Oregon Historical Society Volume 16 (1915-1916), page 37. Accessed 2/9/10 via Google Books search ("william h. packwood"). Packwood was born in 1832 and as a boy lived in Sparta, IL, about 50 miles SE of St. Louis. |
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1840c.43 Lad in Southern Illinois Played Four Old Cat"
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