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Spring Sports at Harvard: "Bat & Ball" and Cricket

Salience Noteworthy
Tags College, Harvard College
City/State/Country: Cambridge, MA, United States
Game Bat-and-Ball, Cricket
Immediacy of Report Contemporary
Age of Players Youth
Text

"In the spring there is no playing of football, but "bat-and-ball" & cricket."

 

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From "Sibley's Private Journal," entry for August 31, 1846, as supplied to David Block by letter of 4/18/2005 from Prof. Harry R. Lewis at Harvard, Cambridge MA.

Lewis notes that the Journal is "a running account of Harvard daily life in the mid nineteenth century."

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"The Thistle," Aug. 4, 1807, p. 4, notes the following: "our forefathers used to play, under trees, the game of Mall and Ball, the same game that the learned Students of Harvard call Bat and Ball."

Mall and Ball seems to be a variant name for the game Pall Mall, a precursor of croquet. So is Harvard "bat and ball" croquet, rather than a baseball-like game? [ba]

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