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Boy's Book of Sports Describes "Base Ball", "Base or Goal Ball"
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| City/State/Country: | New Haven, CT, United States |
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| Game | Base Ball, Base, Goal BallBase Ball, Base, Goal Ball |
| Immediacy of Report | Contemporary |
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| Text | Boy's Book of Sports: A Description of The Exercises and Pastimes of Youth [New Haven, S. Babcock, 1839], pp. 11-12, per Henderson, ref 21. David Block, in Baseball Before We Knew It, page 197-198, points out that the first edition appeared 4 years before the edition that Henderson cited. In its section on "base ball," this book depicts bases in the form of a diamond, with a three-strike rule, plugging, and teams that take the field only after all its players are put out. The terms "innings" and "diamond" appear [Block thinks for the first time] and base running is switched to counter-clockwise. This book also has a description of "Base, or Goal Ball," which described: "gentle tossing" by the pitcher, three-strike outs, a fly rule, counter-clockwise base-running in a circuit of four bases, and the plugging of runners, and all-out-side-out innings.
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| Sources | For Text: David Block carries a page of text, and the field diagram, in Appendix 7, pages 282-283, of Baseball Before We Knew It.
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1835.1 Boy's Book of Sports Describes "Base Ball", "Base or Goal Ball""
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