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Bad, Bad Batts!

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Text	A Chichester churchwarden indicted a group of men for ballplaying, reasoning thus: "first, for it is contrarie to the 7^th Article; second, for they are used to break the Church window with the balls; and thirdly, for that little children had like to have their braynes beaten out with the cricket batt." Brookes, Christopher, English Cricket: the game and its players through the ages (Newton Abbot, 1978), page 16, as cited in Bateman, Anthony,"'More Mighty than the Bat, the Pen . . . ;' Culture, Hegemony, and the Literaturisaton of Cricket," Sport in History, v. 23, 1 (Summer 2003), page 29.
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 <p>Brookes, Christopher, <u>English Cricket: the game and its players through the ages</u> (Newton Abbot, 1978), page 16, as cited in Bateman, Anthony,"'More Mighty than the Bat, the Pen . . . ;'  Culture, Hegemony, and the Literaturisaton of Cricket,"  <u>Sport in History</u>, v. 23, 1 (Summer 2003), page 29.</p>
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