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|Headline=Literary Simile: "Catch it Like a Stool-Ball" | |Headline=Literary Simile: "Catch it Like a Stool-Ball" | ||
|Year=1690 | |Year=1690 | ||
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|Game=Stoolball | |Game=Stoolball | ||
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|Text=<p>Anon., <u>The Pagan Prince: or a Comical History of the Heroik Atchievements of the Palatine of Eboracum</u> [London], per David Block, <u>Baseball Before We Knew It</u>, page 175. In this comical prose work, protection in battle was said to be provided by four Arch Angels - who, "when they see a Cannon Ball coming toward ye from any corner of the Wind, will catch it like a stool-ball and throw it to the Devil."</p> | |Text=<p>Anon., <u>The Pagan Prince: or a Comical History of the Heroik Atchievements of the Palatine of Eboracum</u> [London], per David Block, <u>Baseball Before We Knew It</u>, page 175. In this comical prose work, protection in battle was said to be provided by four Arch Angels - who, "when they see a Cannon Ball coming toward ye from any corner of the Wind, will catch it like a stool-ball and throw it to the Devil."</p> | ||
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Literary Simile: "Catch it Like a Stool-Ball"
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| Text | Anon., The Pagan Prince: or a Comical History of the Heroik Atchievements of the Palatine of Eboracum [London], per David Block, Baseball Before We Knew It, page 175. In this comical prose work, protection in battle was said to be provided by four Arch Angels - who, "when they see a Cannon Ball coming toward ye from any corner of the Wind, will catch it like a stool-ball and throw it to the Devil." |
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1690. Literary Simile: "Catch it Like a Stool-Ball""
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