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Magazine Article Likens Ladies' Gait to Ballplayers' Screw Ball

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Location	NY StateNY State
City/State/Country:	NY, United States
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Game	Base BallBase Ball
Immediacy of Report	Contemporary
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Text	Author[?], "The New Philosophy," The Knickerbocker, volume 26, November 1845 [New York], per David Block, Baseball Before We Knew It, page 207 - 208. The author, unimpressed at a new tightly-laced clothing fashion that affects how women walk, says their walking "motion very much resembles that of one who, in playing 'base,' screws his ball, and the expression is among boys; or of a man rolling what is known among the players of ten pins as a 'screw ball.'" Note: presumably the baseball reference is to a pitcher's attempt to make the ball curve.
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Comment	Important in its confirmation that pitchers in this baseball predecessor game were trying to retire batters, not acting as "feeders" Edit with form to add a comment
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