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SC School Opens, Students Play Town Ball and Bull Pen
| Salience | Noteworthy |
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| City/State/Country: | Willington, SC, United States |
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| Game | Town BallTown Ball |
| Immediacy of Report | Retrospective |
| Age of Players | JuvenileJuvenile |
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| Text | At Moses Waddell's "famous academy" established in Willington, SC in 1804, "instead of playing baseball or football, boys took their recreation in running jumping, wrestling, playing town ball and bull pen." Meriwether, Colyer, "History of Higher Education in South Carolina" [Washington GPO, 1889], chapter II, page 39. Per Seymour, Harold - Notes in the Seymour Collection at Cornell University, Kroch Library Department of Rare and Manuscript Collections, collection 4809. Note: The terminology in this source appears more current than 1804, and it would be wise to consider whether it accurately depicts 1804 events. In addition, Seymour's note does not make clear whether the play described occurred at the time of the establishment of the academy, or later in its history. |
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| Comment | The famous A. B. Longstreet, in his "Master William Mitten" p. 38 (1864) is probably the source for this. He writes of Waddell School c. 1808 (he attended the school that year): "The boys here are the smartest boys I ever saw; and they study the hardest of any boys I ever saw; but they do not seem to like mc, and, therefore, I keep away from them, except a few good boys, who are very kind to me. All their amusements are running, jumping, wrestling, playing town-ball, and bull-pen." Edit with form to add a comment |
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| Submitted by | Bruce Allardice |
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1804.1 SC School Opens, Students Play Town Ball and Bull Pen"
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