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{{Chronology Entry
{{Chronology Entry
|Year=1859
|Year Number=46
|Headline=Visiting English Cricketers View the Bound Rule as "Childish"
|Headline=Visiting English Cricketers View the Bound Rule as "Childish"
|Year=1859
|Salience=2
|Salience=2
|Game=Cricket
|Location=England,
|Text=<p>On October 22, 1859, the touring English cricketers played base ball at a base ball field, which is "about two miles from the town, and had been enclosed at great expense. The base-ball game is somewhat similar to the English game of "rounders," as played by school-boys. . . .Caffyn played exceedingly well, but the English thought catching the ball on the <i>first bound</i> a very childish game." Fred Lillywhite, <u>The English Cricketers' Trip to Canada and the United States</u> (Lillywhite, London, 1860), page 50. Provided by John Thorn, email of 2/9/2008.  The game was played in Rochester NY.  The book [as accessed 11/1/2008] can be viewed on Google Books; try a search of "lillywhite canada."</p>
|Country=England
|Game=Base Ball,
|Immediacy of Report=Contemporary
|Age of Players=Adult
|Text=<p>On October 22, 1859, the touring English cricketers played base ball at a base ball field in Rochester, NY, "about two miles from the town, and had been enclosed at great expense. The base-ball game is somewhat similar to the English game of "rounders," as played by school-boys. . . .Caffyn played exceedingly well, but the English thought catching the ball on the <em>first bound</em> a very childish game."</p>
|Sources=<p>Fred Lillywhite,&nbsp;<span>The English Cricketers' Trip to Canada and the United States</span>&nbsp;(Lillywhite, London, 1860), page 50.&nbsp;The book [as accessed 11/1/2008] can be viewed on Google Books; try a search of "lillywhite canada."</p>
|Submitted by=John Thorn
|Submission Note=2/9/2008
|Reviewed=Yes
|Reviewed=Yes
|Has Supplemental Text=No
|Coordinates=52.3555177, -1.1743197
}}
}}

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On October 22, 1859, the touring English cricketers played base ball at a base ball field in Rochester, NY, "about two miles from the town, and had been enclosed at great expense. The base-ball game is somewhat similar to the English game of "rounders," as played by school-boys. . . .Caffyn played exceedingly well, but the English thought catching the ball on the first bound a very childish game."

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Fred Lillywhite, The English Cricketers' Trip to Canada and the United States (Lillywhite, London, 1860), page 50. The book [as accessed 11/1/2008] can be viewed on Google Books; try a search of "lillywhite canada."

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Submitted by John Thorn
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