1850s.13
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Trap Ball, Stool Ball, Well Established in Louisville KY
| Salience | Noteworthy |
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| Location | US South, KentuckyUS South, Kentucky |
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| Game | StoolballStoolball |
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| Text | "Other forms of bat and ball games, like trap-ball and stool-ball, became well established in Louisville in the decade preceding the Civil War."
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| Sources | Bob Bailey, "Chapter 1 - Beginnings: From Amateur Teams to Disgrace in the National League (mimeo, 1990)', page 1. Bob (email, 1/27/2013) notes that his source for this observation is The Boy's Own Book: A Complete Encyclopedia of all the Diversions, Athletic, and Recreative, of Boyhood and Youth (Louisville, Morton and Griswold, 1854), page 67. |
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1850s.13 Trap Ball, Stool Ball, Well Established in Louisville KY"
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