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|Game=Xenoball
|Game=Xenoball
|Text=<p>Included among the games is <em>das Giftball</em> (the venomball, roughly). Block observes that this game "is identical to the early French game of <em>la balle empoisonee</em> (poison ball, roughly) and that an illustration of two boys playing it "shows it to be a bat-and-ball game." For the French game, see the 1810 entry above.</p>
|Text=<p>Included among the games is <em>das Giftball</em> (the venomball, roughly). Block observes that this game "is identical to the early French game of <em>la balle empoisonee</em> (poison ball, roughly) and that an illustration of two boys playing it "shows it to be a bat-and-ball game." For the French game, see the [[1810c.1]] entry above.</p>
|Sources=<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Jugendspiele zur Ehhjolung und Erheiterung</span> (boys' games for recreation and amusement) [Tilsit, Germany, W. Simmerfeld, 1845], per David Block, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Baseball Before We Knew It</span>, page 207.</p>
|Sources=<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Jugendspiele zur Ehhjolung und Erheiterung</span> (boys' games for recreation and amusement) [Tilsit, Germany, W. Simmerfeld, 1845], per David Block, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Baseball Before We Knew It</span>, page 207.</p>
|Query=<p>Does Block link the two descriptions, or does the German text cite the French game</p>
|Query=<p>Does Block link the two descriptions, or does the German text cite the French game</p>

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German Book of Games Lists das Giftball, a Bat-and-Ball Game

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Included among the games is das Giftball (the venomball, roughly). Block observes that this game "is identical to the early French game of la balle empoisonee (poison ball, roughly) and that an illustration of two boys playing it "shows it to be a bat-and-ball game." For the French game, see the 1810c.1 entry above.

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Jugendspiele zur Ehhjolung und Erheiterung (boys' games for recreation and amusement) [Tilsit, Germany, W. Simmerfeld, 1845], per David Block, Baseball Before We Knew It, page 207.

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