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<div>-- David Block, email of 12/13/2020</div>
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<div>As of December 2020, Protoball's Chronology&nbsp; has over 65 references to stoolball prior to 1785, and 20 from 1785 to 1860.&nbsp; &nbsp;Vey few cite male players, and fewer cite male-only play.</div>
|Query=<p>Is the Homestall Lane meant to say that the competing sides within the county are to be determined by a player's residence on one or the other of the lane?</p>
|Query=<p>Is the Homestall Lane meant to say that the competing sides within the county are to be determined by a player's residence on one or the other of the lane?</p>
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Revision as of 11:18, 14 December 2020

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Men's Stool Ball Match Set: Winner to Receive 150 Guineas . . . and some Lamb

Salience Noteworthy
Tags Gambling
City/State/Country: Kent, England
Game Stool Ball
Immediacy of Report Contemporary
Age of Players Adult
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"Stool-Ball.  To be played in Lynsted Park, near the Parish of Sittingbourn, For One Hundred and Fifty Guineas.  On Monday, the 16th of this Instant May, A Game of Stool Ball.  The players, on this Occasion, will be complemented with a LAMB ROASTED WHOLE, By Mr. Chapman. Homestall Lane is fixed on to divide  the County. THE RETURNED MATCH is to be played at Boughton, when another Lamb will be given, at the WHITE HORSE, by Mr. Chapman, of Lynsted.

The Gentlemen are required to to meet, in Consequence of the above Match, on Friday next, May 6, at the Swan <illegible>.

   

Sources

Kentish Gazette, May 4, 1785.

Comment
"While mentions of stool ball in literature go back centuries, this is the earliest “serious” contest of the game I’m aware of. It’s especially interesting because the competitors were men. Of course, we have no idea what form of the game they were playing, but presumably it more closely resembled the structured form that women began playing in the 19th century as opposed to the milkmaid version
of centuries past.  
 
 I should have more important things than this to occupy me on a rainy [San Francisco] Sunday afternoon, but apparently not.
 
-- David Block, email of 12/13/2020
 
As of December 2020, Protoball's Chronology  has over 65 references to stoolball prior to 1785, and 20 from 1785 to 1860.   Vey few cite male players, and fewer cite male-only play.
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Is the Homestall Lane meant to say that the competing sides within the county are to be determined by a player's residence on one or the other of the lane?

 

What is a 1785 guinea worth today? 

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