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|Headline=NYS Traveler Notes Dutch | |Year=1755 | ||
|Year Number=6 | |||
|Salience= | |Headline=NYS Traveler Notes Dutch Boys Playing "Bat and Ball" | ||
|Location= | |Salience=1 | ||
|Game=Xenoball | |Location=New York State | ||
|Game=Xenoball; Bat and Ball | |||
|Age of Players=Juvenile | |||
|Text=<p>Gideon Hawley (1727-1807), traveling through the area where Binghamton now is, wrote: "even at the celebration of the Lord's supper [the Dutch boys] have been playing bat and ball the whole term around the house of God."</p> | |Text=<p>Gideon Hawley (1727-1807), traveling through the area where Binghamton now is, wrote: "even at the celebration of the Lord's supper [the Dutch boys] have been playing bat and ball the whole term around the house of God."</p> | ||
<p>Hawley, Gideon, < | <p>Hawley, Gideon, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Rev. Gideon Hawley's Journal</span> [Broome County, NY 1753], page 1041. Collection of Tom Heitz. Per Patricia Millen, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">From Pastime to Passion</span> [2001], page 2.</p> | ||
|Comment=<p>Writing in 2011, Brian Turner discerns that "bat and ball" maybe the name of a defined game, and not just a generic term. See Brian Turner, "Bat and Ball: A Distinct Game or a Generic Term?", <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Base Ball</span> Journal (Special Issue on Origins), Volume 5, number 1 (Spring 2011), pages 37-40. He finds several uses of the phrase in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, most of them north and east of Boston.</p> | |||
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| Text | Gideon Hawley (1727-1807), traveling through the area where Binghamton now is, wrote: "even at the celebration of the Lord's supper [the Dutch boys] have been playing bat and ball the whole term around the house of God." Hawley, Gideon, Rev. Gideon Hawley's Journal [Broome County, NY 1753], page 1041. Collection of Tom Heitz. Per Patricia Millen, From Pastime to Passion [2001], page 2. |
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| Comment | Writing in 2011, Brian Turner discerns that "bat and ball" maybe the name of a defined game, and not just a generic term. See Brian Turner, "Bat and Ball: A Distinct Game or a Generic Term?", Base Ball Journal (Special Issue on Origins), Volume 5, number 1 (Spring 2011), pages 37-40. He finds several uses of the phrase in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, most of them north and east of Boston. Edit with form to add a comment |
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