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Game	Call Ball
Game Family	Hat ball Hat ball
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Description	A game in which a ball is tossed up among players and one player’s name is then called out. That player must obtain the ball and try to hit fleeing compatriots with it. Newell [1883] notes that this game was played in Austria.
Sources	William Wells Newell, Games and Songs of American Children (New York: Dover [1963 reprint], 1883)., page 181.
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-|Description=A game in which a ball is tossed up among players and one player’s name is then called out.  That player must obtain the ball and try to hit fleeing compatriots with it.  Newell [1883] [36] notes that this game was played in Austria.
+|Description=<p>A game in which a ball is tossed up among players and one player&rsquo;s name is then called out. That player must obtain the ball and try to hit fleeing compatriots with it. Newell [1883] notes that this game was played in Austria.</p>
+|Sources=<p><span>William Wells Newell,&nbsp;</span><em>Games and Songs of American Children</em><span>&nbsp;</span>(New York: Dover [1963 reprint], 1883)<span>., page 181.</span></p>
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