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New Orleans Reprints Article on Wicket, Barn Ball, Base
| Salience | Peripheral |
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| Tags | |
| Location | US SouthUS South |
| City/State/Country: | [[New Orleans, LA, {{{Country}}}|New Orleans]], [[LA, {{{Country}}}|LA]], [[{{{Country}}}]] |
| Modern Address | |
| Game | Barn Ball (House Ball), Wicket, BaseBarn Ball (House Ball), Wicket, Base |
| Immediacy of Report | |
| Age of Players | Youth, Juvenile, AdultYouth, Juvenile, Adult |
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| Notables | |
| Text | "Who has not played 'barn ball' in boyhood, 'base' in his youth and 'wicket' in his adulthood?"
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| 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 Allardice, 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] Edit with form to add a comment |
| 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 in the US? In other nations? Edit with form to add a query |
| Source Image | [[Image:|left|thumb]] |
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| Submitted by | Added commentary by Bruce Allardice |
| Submission Note | Phone call, December 2021 |
| Has Supplemental Text |
1841.15 New Orleans Reprints Article on Wicket, Barn Ball, Base"
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