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|Headline=Cricket Lore:  Ball Kills the Prince of Wales?
|Year=1751
|Year=1751
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|Year Number=2
|Headline=Cricket Lore: Ball Kills the Prince of Wales, Pretty Slowly
|Salience=2
|Salience=2
|Tags=Hazard,Famous
|Tags=Famous, Hazard,  
|Text=<p>RIP, sweet Prince. [The prince was the father of King George III.]</p>
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<p>Per John Ford, <u>Cricket: A Social History 1700-1835</u> [David and Charles, 1972], page 17: "Death of Frederick Lewis, Prince of Wales, as a result of a blow on the head from a cricket ball." Ford does not give a citation.</p>
|Country=England
<p>Others attribute the Prince's death to a tennis incident; neither theory seems fully credible, as death was not immediate, and "an abscess" of the lung was believed to be the proximal cause of death.</p>
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|City=London
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|Game=Cricket
|Immediacy of Report=Contemporary
|Age of Players=Adult
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|Text=<p>RIP, sweet Prince. [The prince was the father of King George III.]</p>
<p><strong>[A]&nbsp;</strong>"Death of Frederick Lewis, Prince of Wales, as a result of a blow on the head from a cricket ball."&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>[B]&nbsp;</strong> "It's generally said his late Royal Highness the Prince of Wales got a Blow on his Side with a Ball about two Years ago, playing at Cricket, which diversion he was fond of, and 'tis thought was the Occasion of his Death . . . ."</p>
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|Sources=<p><strong>[A]</strong> John Ford,&nbsp;Cricket: A Social History 1700-1835&nbsp;[David and Charles, 1972], page 17.&nbsp;&nbsp;Ford does not give a citation.</p>
<p><strong>[B]</strong>&nbsp;<em>London Advertiser</em>, March 26, 1751.</p>
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|Comment=<p>In&nbsp;<span style="text-decoration-line: underline;">Pastime Lost</span> (U Nebraska Press, 2019, p 26), David Block writes that "Whether Frederick's death was the consequence of a lingering cricket injury has been the subject of debate ever since, with most modern observers . . . expressing skepticism." Today, some fans of the old game of Royal tennis believe that it was a (stuffed) tennis ball that felled the Prince.</p>
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|Submitted by=David Block
|Submission Note=Email of 9/16/2020
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|Year Number=2
|Has Supplemental Text=No
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Cricket Lore: Ball Kills the Prince of Wales, Pretty Slowly

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Immediacy of Report Contemporary
Age of Players Adult
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RIP, sweet Prince. [The prince was the father of King George III.]

[A] "Death of Frederick Lewis, Prince of Wales, as a result of a blow on the head from a cricket ball." 

[B]  "It's generally said his late Royal Highness the Prince of Wales got a Blow on his Side with a Ball about two Years ago, playing at Cricket, which diversion he was fond of, and 'tis thought was the Occasion of his Death . . . ."

 

 

Sources

[A] John Ford, Cricket: A Social History 1700-1835 [David and Charles, 1972], page 17.  Ford does not give a citation.

[B] London Advertiser, March 26, 1751.

 

Comment

In Pastime Lost (U Nebraska Press, 2019, p 26), David Block writes that "Whether Frederick's death was the consequence of a lingering cricket injury has been the subject of debate ever since, with most modern observers . . . expressing skepticism." Today, some fans of the old game of Royal tennis believe that it was a (stuffed) tennis ball that felled the Prince.

 

 

 

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