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<p><span>Stewart Culin, "Street Games of Boys in </span>Brooklyn, N.Y.<span>," </span><em>Journal of American Folklore</em><span> 4, no. 14 </span>(1891)<span>. page 233.</span></p> +
<p><span>Brand, </span><em>Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain: The Origins of Our Vulgar and Provincial Customs, Ceremonies and Superstitions</em><span>., page 408.</span></p>
<p><span><span>J. Jamieson, </span><em>Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language</em><span> (</span>Edinburgh<span>, 1825), page 192. Jamiesson describes the game</span><span> </span><span>as being played in </span>County Fife<span> and perhaps elsewhere.</span></span></p>
<p>Alice Bertha Gomme, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland</span> (London, D. Nutt, 1894), pages 63-64.</p>
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<p><span>John Burnett, </span><em>Riot, Revelry and Rout: Sport in Lowland Scotland before 1860</em><span> </span>(East Linton, Scotland: Tuckwell Press, 2000)<span>., page 208.</span></p> +
<p>John Pastier, email of February 12, 2009.</p> +
<p><em>Boys’ Own Book: A Complete Encyclopedia of Athletic, Scientific, Outdoor and Indoor Sports<span style="text-decoration: underline;"> </span></em><span>(James Miller, Pub’r, New York, 1881), page 14.</span></p> +
<p><span>P. Maigaard, “Battingball Games,” reprinted in Block, </span><em>Baseball Before We Knew It,</em><span> Appendix 6.</span><span> </span><span>See page 263.</span></p> +
<p><span>See also Frederic Gomes Cassidy and Joan Houston Hall, </span><em>Dictionary of American Regional English</em><span> (Harvard University Press, 1996), page 604.</span><span> </span><span>The dictionary notes usage as “esp. VA” and gives four attested citations from 1889 to 1911, one of them a recollection from 1840, and another a 1911 dictionary associating the game with “the </span>Southern United States<span>.”</span></p>
<p><span>The Richmond <em>Whig</em>, Aug. 21, 1866 speaks of southerners 20 years prior playing bandy and chermany. The Richmond <em>Dispatch</em>, July 20, 1890 says kids played chermany 40 years ago (i.e., 1850). See also Altherr, "Southern Ball Games--Chermany, Round Cat, Etc." <em>Base Ball</em> (Spring 2011).</span></p> +
<p><span>Joseph Strutt, </span><em>The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England</em><span> </span>(1801)<span>, pages 104-105.</span></p>
<p><span>Hone, "The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England..." (1831) p. 105</span></p> +
<p><span>A. Morrison, “Uist Games,” </span><em>The Celtic Review</em><span>, Volume 4 (1907/1908), pages 361- 363.</span></p> +
<p><span>G. T. Lowth, </span><em>The Wanderer in Arabia; or, Western Footsteps in Eastern Tracks</em><span> (Hurst and Blackett, London, 1855), page 109.</span></p> +
<p><span>Special thanks to Jeff Kittel, emails of 10/11/09 and 9/22/13, for material on this game.</span><span> A website on corkball is found at <a href="http://www.playcorkball.com,">http://www.playcorkball.com,</a> as accessed 9/25/13. It includes a 2012 paper on the history and context of the game. Its author, Jeff Kopp, sent us many further details (outlined above) in a 10/16/2013 email. </span></p>
<p><span>See also </span><a href="http://www.angelfire.com/sports/corkball/STLhistory.html">http:///www.angelfire.com/sports/corkball/STLhistory.htm</a><span>. Accessed 10/8/09. This article includes a description of corkball rules and a corkball chronology that shows the addition of balls and strikes in 1941 and of extra-base hits in 1965.</span></p> +
<p><span>See <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/cricket/4883752/Strewth-Cricket-is-a-foreign-import-according-to-new-Australian-research.html">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/cricket/4883752/Strewth-Cricket-is-a-foreign-import-according-to-new-Australian-research.html</a> accessed 10/10/09.</span><span> </span><span>Special thanks to Beth Hise, emails of September 2009, for leads on this game.</span></p> +
<p><span>Gomme, </span><em>Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland, Volume 1</em><span>, page 83.</span></p> +
<p><span>Gomme, </span><em>Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland, Volume 1</em><span>, pages 84-85.</span></p> +
<p><a href="http://www.myrecollection.com/christianog/games.html">http://www.myrecollection.com/christianog/games.html</a></p> +
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<p>Paul Dickson, The Worth Book of Softball (Facts on File, 1994), pages 57 and 58. </p> +
<p><em>Ball Games</em><span>,</span><span> </span>(London: George Routledge and Sons, 1860)<span>., page 41.</span></p> +
<p><span>[1] <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Boy's Book of Sports; a Description of the Exercises and Pastimes of Youth</span> (New Haven, S. Babcock, 1835), 24 pages. Summarized in David Block, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Baseball before We Knew It</span> (University of Nebraska Press, 2005), page 198. <span> See also Babcock's <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Juvenile Pastimes; or Girls' and Boys' Book of Sports</span><span> (New Haven, S. Babcock), 16 pages, per David Block,</span><span> page 212.</span></span></span></p>
<p>[2] F. B. Sanborn, <em>New Hampshire Biography and Autobiography</em> (Private Printing, Concord NH, 1905), page 13.</p> +
<p><span>Amy Stewart Fraser, </span><em>Dae Ye Min’ Langsyne?: A Pot-pourri of Games, Rhymes, and Ploys of Scottish Childhood</em><span> (Routledge, 1975),</span><span> </span><span>page 59.</span></p> +
<p><em>Daily Cleveland Herald</em><span>, April 24, 1867, as posted to the 19CBB listserve by Kyle DeCicco-Carey on 8/19/2008.</span></p> +