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{{Chronology Entry
{{Chronology Entry
|Year=1852
|Year Number=8
|Headline=Adult Town Ball Seen in on a Sunday in IL
|Headline=Adult Town Ball Seen in on a Sunday in IL
|Year=1852
|Salience=2
|Salience=2
|Location=Illinois
|Location=Illinois
|Game=Town Ball
|Game=Town Ball
|Age of Players=Adult
|Text=<p>"[N]ot a great while ago, [I] saw a number of grown men, on a Sabbath morning, playing town-ball."</p>
|Text=<p>"[N]ot a great while ago, [I] saw a number of grown men, on a Sabbath morning, playing town-ball."</p>
<p>Rev. E. B. Olmsted, <u>The Home Missionary</u> [Office of the American Home Missionary Society] Volume 24, Number 1 [May 1852], page 188</p>
<p>"I grieve to say the stores all do business on the Sabbath.&nbsp; We hope, by constantly showing the people their transgression, to break up this [commerce] , the source of so much other sin."</p>
|Sources=<p>Rev. E. B. Olmsted, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Home Missionary</span> [Office of the American Home Missionary Society] Volume 24, Number 1 [May 1852], page 188.</p>
|Comment=<p>The location of the game was Cairo, Illinois.</p>
|Reviewed=Yes
|Has Supplemental Text=No
}}
}}

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Adult Town Ball Seen in on a Sunday in IL

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Location Illinois
Game Town Ball
Age of Players Adult
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"[N]ot a great while ago, [I] saw a number of grown men, on a Sabbath morning, playing town-ball."

"I grieve to say the stores all do business on the Sabbath.  We hope, by constantly showing the people their transgression, to break up this [commerce] , the source of so much other sin."

Sources

Rev. E. B. Olmsted, The Home Missionary [Office of the American Home Missionary Society] Volume 24, Number 1 [May 1852], page 188.

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The location of the game was Cairo, Illinois.

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