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1800c.1 Sports at Exeter Academy include "Old-Fashioned Bat and Ball". . . and Football

Location:

NH

Age of Players:

Youth

"At the turn of the century ball-playing at Exeter was commonplace, according to a historian of that school.  'The only games seem to have been old-fashioned 'bat and ball', which, in the spring, was played on the grounds of the Academy building, and football.  The former differed widely from the modern game of base ball, which was introduced later.   The old game had fewer rules, and was played with a soft leather ball.'"  -- Tom Altherr

Sources:

Cunningham, Frank H., Familiar Sketches of the Phillips Exeter Academy and Surroundings (James R. Osgood and Company, Boston, 1883), p. 281. Per Thomas L. Altherr, "A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball," reprinted in David Block, Baseball before We Knew It; see page 245 and ref # 79.

Query:

Is there a way to check the approximate year that the historian is depicting in this passage? 

Circa
1800
Item
1800c.1
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1830s.32 Spiked Egg-Nog Between Innings?

Location:

NH

Game:

Base-ball

Age of Players:

Adult

"Players consumed egg-nog 'between intervals of base-ball playing' on nearby Shapleigh's Island and taunted the temperance forces."  -- Tom Altherr

Sources:

Charles W Brewster, Rambles Around Portsmouth, second series ((Portsmouth, John Melcher, 1869), pages 5-6.  Per Thomas L. Altherr, “A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball: Baseball and Baseball-Type Games in the Colonial Era, Revolutionary War, and Early American Republic.." Nine, Volume 8, number 2 (2000), p. 15-49.  Reprinted in David Block, Baseball before We Knew It – see page 244 and ref #68.

Decade
1830s
Item
1830s.32
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