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|Headline=Book About a Scotsman Mentions "Cat and Doug" and Other Diversions | |Headline=Book About a Scotsman Mentions "Cat and Doug" and Other Diversions | ||
|Year=1706 | |Year=1706 | ||
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|Tags=Fiction | |Tags=Fiction | ||
|Text=<p>[Author?] <u>The Scotch rogue; or, The life and actions of Donald MacDonald, a Highland Scot</u> [London], per David Block, <u>Baseball Before We Knew It</u>, page 176. The [apparently fictional] hero recalls; "I was but a sorry proficient in learning: being readier at <i>cat and doug, cappy-hole,</i> riding the <i>burley hacket,</i> playing at <i>kyles and dams</i>, <i>spangboder, wrestling, and foot-ball</i> (and such other sports as we use in our country) than at my book." Block identifies "cat and doug," or cat and dog, as a Scots two-base version of the game of cat, "and the likely forbear of the American game of two-old-cat."</p> | |Text=<p>[Author?] <u>The Scotch rogue; or, The life and actions of Donald MacDonald, a Highland Scot</u> [London], per David Block, <u>Baseball Before We Knew It</u>, page 176. The [apparently fictional] hero recalls; "I was but a sorry proficient in learning: being readier at <i>cat and doug, cappy-hole,</i> riding the <i>burley hacket,</i> playing at <i>kyles and dams</i>, <i>spangboder, wrestling, and foot-ball</i> (and such other sports as we use in our country) than at my book." Block identifies "cat and doug," or cat and dog, as a Scots two-base version of the game of cat, "and the likely forbear of the American game of two-old-cat."</p> | ||
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| Text | [Author?] The Scotch rogue; or, The life and actions of Donald MacDonald, a Highland Scot [London], per David Block, Baseball Before We Knew It, page 176. The [apparently fictional] hero recalls; "I was but a sorry proficient in learning: being readier at cat and doug, cappy-hole, riding the burley hacket, playing at kyles and dams, spangboder, wrestling, and foot-ball (and such other sports as we use in our country) than at my book." Block identifies "cat and doug," or cat and dog, as a Scots two-base version of the game of cat, "and the likely forbear of the American game of two-old-cat." |
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