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New Orleans Reprints Article on Wicket, Barn Ball, Base

Salience Peripheral
Location US South
Game Wicket, Base, Barn Ball (House Ball)
Age of Players Juvenile, Youth, Adult
Text

"Who has not played 'barn ball' in boyhood, 'base' in his youth and 'wicket' in his adulthood?"

 

Sources

New Orleans Picayune, 1841. This cite is found in Tom Melville, The Tented Field: A History of Cricket in America (Bowling Green State U Press, Bowling Green, 1998), page 6. He attributes it, apparently, to Dale Somers, The Rise of Sports in New Orleans (LSU Press, Baton Rouge, 1972), page 48.

Warning

It is not clear that this article reflects actual wicket play, or interest, in New Orleans in 1841.

The text appears have been 'borrowed' from a Cleveland paper: See 1841.17

However, 1844.13 shows that a New Orleans wicket club did call a meeting in 1844.

Comment

Note: Melville is willing to identify the sport as the one that was played mostly in the CT-central and MA area . . . but it is conceivable that the writer intended to denote cricket instead? 

From Bruce Allardise, December 2021: The original article is in the New Orleans Times Picayune, May 31, 1841, which references a reminisce in a {April 1841} Cleveland OH newspaper article.  [bsa]

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Query

Do we have any other references to wicket in LA before 1844?  Could the Picayune simply have copied an article from a distant newspaper.

Can we learn how broadly barn ball was played n the US?  In other nations?

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Submitted by Added commentary by Bruce Allardise
Submission Note Phone call, December 2021



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