1810c.10
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Minister Reflects on Early Nineteenth Century Sports and Entertainments
| Salience | Noteworthy |
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| City/State/Country: | Sheffield, MA, United States |
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| Immediacy of Report | Retrospective |
| Age of Players | YouthYouth |
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| Text | "The sorts and entertainments were very simple [around 1800] . . . games of ball, not base-ball, as is now [1880s?] the fashion, yet with wickets . . . " "But as to sports and entertainments in general, there were more of them in those days than now. We had more holidays, more games in the streets -- of ball-playing, of quoits, of running, leaping, and wrestling."
--Orville Dewey |
| Sources | m. Dewey, ed., Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey, D. D. (Boston, 1883), pp. 19 and 21. Per Thomas L. Altherr, "Chucking the Old Apple: Recent Discoveries of Pre-1840 North American Ball Games," Base Ball, Volume 2, number 1 (Spring 2008), page 38. |
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| Comment | If these 1800-era memories were composed in around 1880, we should be cautious. Wow, leaping again! Do we need a History of Leaping website? Edit with form to add a comment |
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1810c.10 Minister Reflects on Early Nineteenth Century Sports and Entertainments"
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