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{{Chronology Entry |Year=1586 |Year Suffix=c |Year Number=1 |Headline=Sydney Cites Stoolball |Salience=2 |Tags=Famous, Females, |Location=England |Country=England |Game=Stoolball |Immediacy of Report=Contemporary |Age of Players=Youth, Adult |Notables=Sir Philip Sydney, Lady Mary Dudley |Text=<p>"A time there is for all, my mother often sayes</p> <p>When she with skirts tuckt very hie, with gyrles at stoolball playes"</p> <p> </p> |Sources=<p>Sir Philip Sydney, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Arcadia</span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">: Sonnets</span> [1622], page 493. <strong>Note:</strong> citation needs confirmation.</p> |Comment=<p>Sir Philip Sydney (1554-1586) died at age 31 in 1586.</p> <p>As of October 2012, this early stoolball ref. is the only one I see that can be interpreted as describing baserunning in stoolball - but it still may merely describe running by a fielder, not a batter. (LMc, Oct/2012)</p> <p>Sydney's mother was the sister of Robert Dudley, noted in item #[[1500s.2]] above as a possible stoolball player in the time of Eliizabeth I.</p> |Query=<p>Further interpretations are welcome as to Sydney's meaning.</p> |Reviewed=Yes |Has Supplemental Text=No |Coordinates=52.3555177, -1.1743197 }}
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