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- 1619.1 + (<p>"It was the day of all dayes in t … <p>"It was the day of all dayes in the yeare/That unto Bacchus hath its dedication,/ . . . / When country wenches play with stoole and ball,/And run at <i>Barley-breake</i> until they fall:/And country lads fall on them, in such sort/That after forty weekes the[sic] rew the sport."</p></br><p>Anonymous, <u>Pasquils Palinodia, and His Progress to the Taverne; Where, After the Survey of the Sellar, You Are Presented with a Pleasant Pynte of Poeticall Sherry</u> [London], per David Block, <u>Baseball Before We Knew It</u>, page 169, who credits Henderson, page 74. Block notes that "Barley-Break" [not a ball game] was, like stoole ball, traditionally a spring courtship ritual in the English countryside.</p>] was, like stoole ball, traditionally a spring courtship ritual in the English countryside.</p>)