Touch-the-Base

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Game	Touch-the-Base
Game Family	Hook-em-snivy Hook-em-snivy
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Description	Writing of the Ohio youth of a Civil War general in about 1840, Whitelaw Reid (1868)[211] reported that “Touch-the-Base” was the favorite game, and of all who engaged in the romp, none were more eager or happy than ‘Jimmy” [the late Major-General James McPherson]. We cannot be sure that this was a ball game.
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