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Base Ball and Bagpipes and Whisky on the Fourth!

Salience Peripheral
Tags Pre-modern Rules
City/State/Country: Madison, WI, United States
Game OFBB? (remembered as base ball in 1877)
Immediacy of Report Retrospective
Age of Players Unknown
Holiday July 4
Text
 
"William Vroman recalls attending a Fourth of July celebration in 1845:
 
'The programme was for fun generally, and we had it. Rifle shooting for sheep, home-made Scotch whisky and beer, playing base ball, dancing the 'Highland fling' on the green, with Billy Ray and his bagpipes for music.'
Sources
Madison, Dane County and Surrounding Towns;
being a History and Guide" (Madison, Wisconsin; 1877).
Comment
I'm not sure that the combination of homemade whiskey and Billy Ray playing the bagpipes would be such a good idea, particularly not with rifles lying about.  -- Richard Hershberger
 
Especially if the sheep had the rifles -- Protoball Functionary
 
As of December 2020, Protoball has no base ball is known in Madison before 1860. 
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Submitted by Richard Hershberger
Submission Note Email of 12/9/2020; Improved by Bruce Allardice, 12/10/2020



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