1856.29

Ball Play in Children's Song

Salience	Peripheral
Tags	Ball in the Culture, MusicBall in the Culture, Music
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City/State/Country:	United States
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Game
Immediacy of Report	Contemporary
Age of Players	JuvenileJuvenile
Holiday	New Year's
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Text	The New Year's number of a children's magazine, Stu-dent & Schoolmate, featured a musical piece entitled "The Holiday Song" in 1856. The second stanza went as follows: Hark! we hear our schoolmates call, And we see the whizzing ball From the bat stick flying; Bat the ball, One and all, Great and small, Keep the ball a flying.
Sources	"The Holiday Song," in Student & Schoolmate: A Monthly Reader for School & Home Instruc-tion Containing Original Dialogues, Speeches, Bio-graphy, History, Travels, Poetry, Music, Science, Anecdotes, Problems, Puz-zles, etc., January 1, 1856, p. 108. Reprinted in Originals, Newsletter of the Origins Committee of SABR, Vol. 4 No. 12. Dec. 2011
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Submitted by	Robert Tholkes
Submission Note	12/10/2013
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