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{{Chronology Entry | {{Chronology Entry | ||
|Year=1815 | |Year=1815 | ||
|Year Suffix=c | |Year Suffix=c | ||
|Year Number=5 | |||
|Headline=RI Boy Did A Little Ball-Playing | |||
|Salience=2 | |Salience=2 | ||
|Text=<p>Adin Ballou grew up in a minister's home, and his amusements were of the "homely and simple kinds, such as hunting, fishing, wrestling, wrestling, jumping, ball-playing , quoit-pitching . . .Card-playing was utterly disallowed. | |Country=United States | ||
|Coordinates=41.9721816, -71.4061876 | |||
|State=RI | |||
|City=Cumberland | |||
|Immediacy of Report=Retrospective | |||
|Age of Players=Youth | |||
|Text=<p>Adin Ballou grew up in a minister's home in Cumberland, RI, and his amusements were of the "homely and simple kinds, such as hunting, fishing, wrestling, wrestling, jumping, ball-playing , quoit-pitching . . .Card-playing was utterly disallowed." </p> | |||
|Sources=<p>"W. Heywood, ed., <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Autobiography of Adin Ballou</span> (Vox Populi Press, Lowell MA, 1896), page 13. Per Thomas L. Altherr, "Chucking the Old Apple: Recent Discoveries of Pre-1840 North American Ball Games," <span>Base Ball</span>, Volume 2, number 1 (Spring 2008), page 30.</p> | |||
<p>The autobiography was accessed 11/15/2008 via a Google Books search for "adin ballou." </p> | |||
|Comment=<p>The book has no references to wicket, cricket or roundball.</p> | |||
|Reviewed=Yes | |Reviewed=Yes | ||
| | |Has Supplemental Text=No | ||
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| City/State/Country: | Cumberland, RI, United States |
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| Immediacy of Report | Retrospective |
| Age of Players | YouthYouth |
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| Text | Adin Ballou grew up in a minister's home in Cumberland, RI, and his amusements were of the "homely and simple kinds, such as hunting, fishing, wrestling, wrestling, jumping, ball-playing , quoit-pitching . . .Card-playing was utterly disallowed." |
| Sources | "W. Heywood, ed., Autobiography of Adin Ballou (Vox Populi Press, Lowell MA, 1896), page 13. Per Thomas L. Altherr, "Chucking the Old Apple: Recent Discoveries of Pre-1840 North American Ball Games," Base Ball, Volume 2, number 1 (Spring 2008), page 30. The autobiography was accessed 11/15/2008 via a Google Books search for "adin ballou." |
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