1852.2

Lit Magazine Cites "Roaring" Game of "Bat and Base-ball"

Salience	Noteworthy
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City/State/Country:	United States
Modern Address
Game	Base Ball, Bat-BallBase Ball, Bat-Ball
Immediacy of Report	Retrospective
Age of Players	JuvenileJuvenile
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Text	The fifth stanza of the poem "Morning Musings on an Old School-Stile" reads: "How they poured the soul of gay and joyous boyhood/ Into roaring games of marbles, bat and base-ball!/ Thinking that the world was only made to play in, -/ Made for jolly boys, tossing, throwing balls!
Sources	Southern Literary Messenger, volume 18, number 2, February 1852, page 96, per David Block, Baseball Before We Knew It, page 214.
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Query	John Thorn interprets this phrase to denote two games, bat-ball and base-ball. Others just see it as a local variant of the term base-ball. Is the truth findable here? Note that Brian Turner, in "The Bat and Ball": A Distinct Game or a Generic Term?, Base Ball, volume 5, number 1, p. 37 ff, suggests that 'bat and ball" may have been a distinct game played in easternmost New England. Edit with form to add a query
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Submitted by	John Thorn, David Ball
Submission Note	2/10/2008. 6/4/2006.
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