1833.8

Untitled Drawing of Ball Game [Wicket?] Appears in US 1830s Songbook

Salience	Peripheral
Tags	Drawing, Music, US cricket clubsDrawing, Music, US cricket clubs
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Game	CricketCricket
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Text	A songbook drawing shows five children - a tosser, batter, two fielders, and boy waiting to bat. The bats are spoon-shaped. The wicket looks more like an upright cricket wicket than the long low bar associated with US wicket.
Sources	Watts' Divine and Moral Songs - For the Use of Children [New York, Mahlon Day, 374 Pearl Street, 1836], page 15. Accessed at the "Origins of Baseball" file at the Giamatti Center in Cooperstown. David Block, (see Baseball Before We Knew It, page 196), has found an 1833 edition.
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Comment	Is it wicket? Base-ball? Here's Block's commentary. " . . .an interesting woodcut portraying boys playing a slightly ambiguous bat-and-ball game that is possibly baseball . . . . A goal in the ground near the batter might be a wicket, but it more closely resembles an early baseball goal such as the one pictured in A Little Pretty Pocket-Book" (see #1744.2, above). Edit with form to add a comment
Query	Is the drawing associated with a song that may offer a clue? Edit with form to add a query
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