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Game	Norwegian Ball
Game Family	Hook-em-snivy Hook-em-snivy
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Description	This game is mentioned, along with Swede Ball in a 1908 book on North Dakota folkways. Said to be taught to local children by Swedish newcomers and a Swedish teacher, the game is only depicted as being “played somewhat like ‘one old cat.’” It seems conceivable that this game is Brannboll. Maigaard (1941) notes a Norwegian form of Long Ball, noted as “probably recent,” that uniquely uses a field that resembles baseball’s use of a 90-degree fair territory delimitation.
Sources	Collections of the State Historical Society, Volume 2 (State Printers and Binders, Bismark ND, 1908), pages 213-214. Per Maigaard, "Battingball Games," Genus 5 (1941); see Block, Appendix 6, page 263.
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-|Description=This game is mentioned, along with Swede Ball in a 1908 book[131] on North Dakota folkways.  Said to be taught to local children by Swedish newcomers and a Swedish teacher, the game is only depicted as being “played somewhat like ‘one old cat.’” It seems conceivable that this game is Brannboll.  Maigaard (1941)[132] notes a Norwegian form of Long Ball, noted as “probably recent,” that uniquely uses a field that resembles baseball’s use of a 90-degree fair territory delimitation.
+|Description=<p>This game is mentioned, along with Swede Ball in a 1908 book on North Dakota folkways. Said to be taught to local children by Swedish newcomers and a Swedish teacher, the game is only depicted as being “played somewhat like ‘one old cat.’” It seems conceivable that this game is Brannboll. Maigaard (1941) notes a Norwegian form of Long Ball, noted as “probably recent,” that uniquely uses a field that resembles baseball’s use of a 90-degree fair territory delimitation.</p>
+|Sources=<p><em>Collections of the State Historical Society</em><span>, Volume 2 (State Printers and</span><span>  </span><span>Binders, Bismark ND, 1908), pages 213-214.</span></p>
+<p><span><span>Per Maigaard, "Battingball Games," </span><em>Genus</em><span> 5 (1941); see Block, Appendix 6, page 263.</span></span></p>
+|Game Eras=Derivative
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