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<p><u>Taschenbuch fur das Jahr 1815 der Liebe und Freundschaft</u> [Frankfurt am Main] per David Block, <u>Baseball Before We Knew It</u>, page 186. Block reports that the April section of this yearly book has an engraving of children playing a bat-and-ball game. <b>Note:</b> Does the game appear to use bases?</p> +
<p>Fairchild, G. M., ed., <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Journal of an American at Fort Malden and Quebec in the War of 1812</span> (private printing, Quebec, 1090 (sic; 1900?), no pagination. Per Thomas L. Altherr, "A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball," reprinted in David Block, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Baseball Before We Knew It,</span> ref # 87.)</p> +
<p>"[A]ny person who shall be convicted of sliding down any hill on sleighs, sleds, or boards . . . between Thomas Hinkley's dwelling house & Mr. Vaugh's mill . . . or any who shall play at ball or quoits in any of the streets . . . shall, on conviction, pay a fine of fifty cents for each offence . . . ."</p>
<p>Hallowell [ME] Gazette, December 25, 1816. Hallowell is about 2 miles south of Augusta and 50 miles NE of Portland.</p> +
<p>On June 6, 1816, trustees of the Village of Cooperstown, New York enacted an ordinance: "<em>Be it Ordained</em> That no person shall play at Ball in Second or West Street (now Pioneer and Main Streets), in this village, under a penalty of one dollar, for each and every offence."</p>
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<p>Richard Hershberger [emails of 1/28/09 and 2/4/10] reports seeing advertisements in the <span style="text-decoration: underline;">American Beacon</span> for a Norfolk Cricket Club from 1816 to 1820:</p>
<p>"CRICKET CLUB. A meeting of the Subscribers to this Club, will be held at the <em>Exchange Coffee House,</em> this evening at 6 o'clock, for the purpose of draughting Rules and Regluations for the government."</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">American Beacon</span>(Norfolk VA), October 25, 1816. Subsequent notices were for playing times.</p>
<p><strong>Note:</strong> In <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Tented Field</span>, Tom Melville writes that a 1989 book has the Norfolk Club being founded in 1803 in imitation of English customs (page 164, note 10). Patricia Click, in <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Spirit of the Times</span> (UVa Press, 1989), page 119, cites the October 1, 1803 issue of the "Norfolk and Portsmouth Herald" [likely then the "Norfolk Herald"] in reference to an observation [page 73] about the social makeup of cricket clubs. <strong>Query:</strong> can we find out what the 1803 paper actually says about cricket, if anything?</p> +
<p>Flittner, Christian G., <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Talisman des Gluckes oder der Selbstlehrer fur alle Karten, Schach, Billard,Ball und Kegel</span> Spiele [Berlin], per David Block, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Baseball Before We Knew It</span>, page 187. This book's small section on ball games carries the Gutsmuths account of <em>das Deutsche Ballspiel</em> the German ballgame. </p> +
<p>Lambert, William, <u>Instructions and Rules For Playing the Noble Game of Cricket</u> (1816).</p>
<p>Bateman notes that 300,000 copies of this book were sold by 1865. Bateman, Anthony,"'More Mighty than the Bat, the Pen . . . ;' Culture,, Hegemony, and the Literaturisaton of Cricket," <u>Sport in History</u>, v. 23, 1 (Summer 2003), page 36.</p> +
<p>"[S]uch regulations as will prevent the playing Ball and Hoops in the public Streets . . . a practice so frequent and dangerous, that has occasioned many great and repeated complaints."</p> +
<p>"[N]o person or persons shall play ball, beat, knock or drive any ball or hoop, in, through, or along any street or alley in the first, second, third, or fourth wards of said city; and every person who shall violate either of the prohibitions . . . shall, for each and every such offense, forfeit and pay the penalty of ten dollars."</p>
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<p>"My father [Charles Mallory] arrived there [Mystic CT] on Christmas Day and found some of his acquaintances playing ball in what was called Randall's Orchard."</p>
<p>Baughman, James, <u>The Mallorys of Mystic: Six Generations in American Maritime Enterprise</u> [Wesleyan University Press, 1972], page 12. Submitted by John Thorn, 10/19/2004.</p> +
<p>"New York City outlawed ball play in the Park, Battery, and Bowling-Green in 1817." - Tom Altherr.</p>
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<p><u>The Gaping, Wide-mouthed, Waddling Frog</u> [London], per David Block, <u>Baseball Before We Knew It</u>, page 187-188. This chapbook comprises a rhyme resembling the song "the Twelve Days of Christmas, and one verse includes "Fourteen Boys at Bat-and-Ball, Some Short and Some Tall." Block also reports that it contains an illustration of several boys playing trap-ball.</p> +
<p>"No student shall, in or near any College building, play at ball, or use any sport or diversion, by which such building may be exposed to injury, on penalty of being fined not exceeding twenty cents, or being suspended if the offence be often repeated."</p>
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<p>"Being a commercial people, they have but few amusements: their summer pastimes are . . . fishing, batching, cricket, quoits, &c; . . . ."</p>
<p>John Palmer, <u>Journal of Travels in the United States of America and in Lower Canada, Etc</u> [London, 1818], page 283. Per Seymour, Harold - Notes in the Seymour Collection at Cornell University, Kroch Library Department of Rare and Manuscript Collections, collection 4809.</p> +
<p>Ford notes that "[William] Lambert, the leading professional of the time, banned from playing at Lord's for accepting bribes." Per John Ford, <u>Cricket: A Social History 1700-1835</u> [David and Charles, 1972], page 21. Ford does not give a citation for this account.</p> +
<p>A student at Yale University reports that cricket and football are played on campus [need cite]. Lester, however, says that he doubts the student saw English cricket, and that, given that the site is CT, it was probably wicket. Lester notes that wicket involved sides of 30 to 35 players, and was played in an alley 75 feet long, and with oversized bats.</p>
<p>Lester, ed., <u>A Century of Philadelphia Cricket</u> [U Penn Press, Philadelphia, 1951], page 7.</p> +
<p>"It is not unreasonable to speculate that as the immigrants came down the Ohio River . . . they brought with them the leisure activities hat had already developed in the cities along the Atlantic coast. There are reports of a form of cricket being played in the city as early at 1818."</p>
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<p>"Although playing ball games near the barracks was prohibited, cadets could play 'at football' near Fort Clinton or north of the large boulder neat the site of the present Library. [Benjamin] Latrobe makes curious mention of a game call 'baseball' played in this area. Unfortunately, he did not describe the game. Could it be that cadets in the 1818-1822 period played the game that Abner Doubleday may have modified later to become the present sport?"</p>
<p>Pappas, George S., <u>To The Point: The United States Military Academy 1802 - 1902</u> [Praeger, Westport Connecticut, 1993], page 145. <b>Note:</b> Pappas evidently does not give a source for the Latrobe statement. I assume that the 1818-1822 dates correspond to Latrobe's time at West Point.</p> +
<p>"[S]ome of the young men were gone to a county court at Palmyra, [but] there was no cricket-match, as was intended, only a game of trap-ball." [1818]</p>
<p>"On the second of October, there was a game of cricket played at Wanborough by the young men of the settlement; this they called keeping Catherine Hill fair, many of the players being from the neighborhood of Godalming and Guildford." [1819] </p>
<p>"There have been [p.295/p.296] several cricket-matches this summer [of 1819], both at Wanborough and Birk Prarie; the Americans seem much pleased at the sight of the game, as it is new to them." [1819] </p>
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<p>[Writing of the yeoman of the county:] "notwithstanding their inclination to religion, they meet in large parties upon Sunday afternoons to play foot-ball, wicket (an old-fashioned cricket), or other gymnastics."</p>
<p>Source: "Manners and Customs of Herefordshire," <i>The Gentleman's Magazine,</i> February 1819. Submitted by Richard Hershberger 8/6/2007.</p> +