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Boy's Own Toy-Maker Covers Tip-cat and Trap-ball

Salience Noteworthy
Tags Chapbooks for Juveniles
Location England
City/State/Country: London, England
Game Old-Cat Games, Trap Ball
Immediacy of Report Contemporary
Age of Players Juvenile
Text

The Boy's Own Toy-Maker [London, Griffith and Farran]. This book has information on making toys and sporting equipment. It spends two pages on tip-cat and three on "trap, bat, and ball." An American edition [Boston, Shepard, Clark and Brown] also appeared in 1859.

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David Block, Baseball Before We Knew It, page 220. 

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