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|Year=1806 | |||
|Year Number=2 | |||
|Headline=Children's Poem Traces Bouncing Ball | |Headline=Children's Poem Traces Bouncing Ball | ||
|Salience=2 | |Salience=2 | ||
|Text=<p>"THE VILLAGE GREEN. | |Text=<p>"THE VILLAGE GREEN. "On the cheerful village green,/ Skirted round with houses small,/ All the boys and girls are seen,/Playing there with hoop and ball/ . . . ./Then ascends the worsted ball;/ High it rises in the air;/Or against the cottage wall,/Up and down it bounces there."</p> | ||
<p>Gilbert, Ann, | <p> </p> | ||
|Sources=<p>Gilbert, Ann, <span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Original Poems, for Infant Minds</span>,</span> 2 volumes (Kimber, Conrad, Philadelphia, 1806), vol. 2, page 120; Citation from Thomas L. Altherr, "A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball," reprinted in David Block,<span style="text-decoration: underline;"> </span><span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Baseball before We Knew I</span>t</span>, see pages 241 and 242. </p> | |||
|Query=<p>Altherr reports that "Gilbert described some sort of ball play as common on the village commons." (See Block, Ibid., page 241). Can we determine Gilbert's usage in calling such play common? Does the clue that the ball was "worsted" (woolen, or made of wool cloth?) add a helpful clue as to the nature of the game played?</p> | |||
|Reviewed=Yes | |Reviewed=Yes | ||
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| Text | "THE VILLAGE GREEN. "On the cheerful village green,/ Skirted round with houses small,/ All the boys and girls are seen,/Playing there with hoop and ball/ . . . ./Then ascends the worsted ball;/ High it rises in the air;/Or against the cottage wall,/Up and down it bounces there."
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| Sources | Gilbert, Ann, Original Poems, for Infant Minds, 2 volumes (Kimber, Conrad, Philadelphia, 1806), vol. 2, page 120; Citation from Thomas L. Altherr, "A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball," reprinted in David Block, Baseball before We Knew It, see pages 241 and 242. |
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| Query | Altherr reports that "Gilbert described some sort of ball play as common on the village commons." (See Block, Ibid., page 241). Can we determine Gilbert's usage in calling such play common? Does the clue that the ball was "worsted" (woolen, or made of wool cloth?) add a helpful clue as to the nature of the game played? Edit with form to add a query |
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