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Children's Book Describes Trap Ball and its Benefits
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Text | Youthful Amusements [Johnson and Warner, Philadelphia, 1810], pp. 37 and 40. Per Thomas L. Altherr, "A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball," reprinted in David Block, Baseball Before We Knew It, ref # 61. The same text later appeared in Remarks on Children's Play [Samuel Wood and Sons, New York, 1819], p. 32. Per Altherr ref # 64. This book describes thirty games and includes an engraving of trap-ball. |
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