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Variant Schoolboy Ballgames Described North of NYC

Salience	Noteworthy
Tags	Pre-modern RulesPre-modern Rules
Location
City/State/Country:	Nyack, NY, United States
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Immediacy of Report
Age of Players	JuvenileJuvenile
Holiday
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Text	"BALL PLAYING. "A game at ball is a very nice play. The boys have a bat. and they hit the ball with it and knock it away. Sometimes the boys miss the ball, and then the catcher catches it, and they have to be out. Sometimes they knock it over the fence, and then the boy that knocked it over has to be out. There are two kinds of ball playing; the base ball and the cat and dog ball. When the boys play cat and dog ball, they have two bats and four boys. Two of the boys take the bats, and the other two throw the ball from one to the other past the boys who have the bats, at the same time one throws the other tries to catch him out." Nyack, Dec, 1856. T.— Dis 4.
Sources	Rockland County Journal (Nyack, N. Y.), December 27, 1856 ("An essay by a school boy on base ball & "cat & dog ball". Report of District School No. 4. Orangetown Nyack. Principal Department, for week ending December 19, 1856")
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Comment	The schoolboy author's name wasn't published -- just the lone initial, "T." Nyack NY (1870 population about 3500) is about 25 miles north of New York City, just north of the Tappan Zee Bridge across the Hudson River. Edit with form to add a comment
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Submitted by	George Thompson
Submission Note	19CBB Posting 7/29/2018
Has Supplemental Text	Yes

1856.36 Variant Schoolboy Ballgames Described North of NYC"

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school ball in Nyack, 1856 

Sun Jul 29, 2018 12:30 pm (PDT) . Posted by: "George Thompson" 

School information:

Rufus Corbin

Matilda S. Cooper. Teachers.

Scholars enrolled, 72

Average Attendance, 51