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|Text=<p>&ldquo;On this very spot I hit the ball against the gable; just there I often stuck the lever which sent the ball aloft in &lsquo;sky-ball&rsquo;; down yonder we played cat and ball . . .&rdquo;</p>
|Text=<p>&ldquo;On this very spot I hit the ball against the gable; just there I often stuck the lever which sent the ball aloft in &lsquo;sky-ball&rsquo;; down yonder we played cat and ball . . .&rdquo;</p>
<p>[A man in his 70's remembers ballgames played in his youth in south central PA]</p>
<p>[A man in his 70's remembers ballgames played in his youth in south central PA]</p>
|Sources=<p>D. X. junkin, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Reverend George Junkin, DD, LLD: A Historical &nbsp;Biography</span> (Lippincott, Philadelphia, 1871), page 538.</p>
|Sources=<p>D. X. Junkin, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Reverend George Junkin, DD, LLD: A Historical &nbsp;Biography</span> (Lippincott, Philadelphia, 1871), page 538.</p>
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|Comment=<p>"It seems to me that sky-ball was a trapball-type game."&nbsp; -- Tom Altherr, 2.19.2021</p>
|Comment=<p>"It seems to me that sky-ball was a trapball-type game."&nbsp; -- Tom Altherr, 2.19.2021</p>
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|Submitted by=Tom Altherr
|Submitted by=Tom Altherr
|Submission Note=Letter received 2/26/2012.
|Submission Note=Letter received 2/24/2012.
|Reviewed=Yes
|Reviewed=Yes
|Has Supplemental Text=No
|Has Supplemental Text=No
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“Sky-ball”, “Cat and Ball” Remembered in Southern PA

Salience Noteworthy
Tags Pre-modern Rules
Location Cumberland County PA
City/State/Country: PA, United States
Game Sky-Ball, Cat and Ball
Immediacy of Report Retrospective
Age of Players Youth
Text

“On this very spot I hit the ball against the gable; just there I often stuck the lever which sent the ball aloft in ‘sky-ball’; down yonder we played cat and ball . . .”

[A man in his 70's remembers ballgames played in his youth in south central PA]

Sources

D. X. Junkin, The Reverend George Junkin, DD, LLD: A Historical  Biography (Lippincott, Philadelphia, 1871), page 538.

Comment

"It seems to me that sky-ball was a trapball-type game."  -- Tom Altherr, 2.19.2021

A gable is an end-wall of a structure.  Tom suggests that the first game reported may have been barn ball.

 

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Query

Any idea what 'cat and ball' might have been?  In February 2021 Protoball does not find that phrase.  It is conceivable that the author misheard his father's use of "bat and Ball" as "cat and ball." 

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Submitted by Tom Altherr
Submission Note Letter received 2/24/2012.



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