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{{Chronology Entry |Year=1810 |Year Suffix=c |Year Number=10 |Headline=Minister Reflects on Early Nineteenth Century Sports and Entertainments |Salience=2 |Country=United States |Coordinates=42.1099885, -73.35514359999999 |State=MA |City=Sheffield |Immediacy of Report=Retrospective |Age of Players=Youth |Text=<p>"The sorts and entertainments were very simple [around 1800] . . . games of ball, not base-ball, as is now [1880s?] the fashion, yet with wickets . . . " </p> <p>"But as to sports and entertainments in general, there were more of them in those days than now. We had more holidays, more games in the streets -- of ball-playing, of quoits, of running, leaping, and wrestling."</p> <p> </p> <p>--Orville Dewey</p> |Sources=<p>m. Dewey, ed., <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey, D. D.</span> (Boston, 1883), pp. 19 and 21. Per Thomas L. Altherr, "Chucking the Old Apple: Recent Discoveries of Pre-1840 North American Ball Games," <em>Base Ball</em>, Volume 2, number 1 (Spring 2008), page 38.</p> |Comment=<p>If these 1800-era memories were composed in around 1880, we should be cautious.</p> <p>Wow, leaping again! Do we need a History of Leaping website?</p> |Reviewed=Yes |Has Supplemental Text=No }}
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