1846.13

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

Salience	Noteworthy
Tags	College, Harvard CollegeCollege, Harvard College
Location
City/State/Country:	Cambridge, MA, United States
Modern Address
Game	Bat-and-Ball, CricketBat-and-Ball, Cricket
Immediacy of Report	Contemporary
Age of Players	YouthYouth
Holiday
Notables
Text	"In the spring there is no playing of football, but "bat-and-ball" & cricket."
Sources	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."
Warning
Comment	"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] Edit with form to add a comment
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External Number
Submitted by	Harry Lewis
Submission Note
Has Supplemental Text

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