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|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.  "W. Heywood, ed., <u>Autobiography of Adin Ballou, 1803-1890</u> (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," <u>Base Ball</u>, Volume 2, number 1 (Spring 2008), page 30.  The autobiography was accessed 11/15/2008 via Google Books search for "adin ballou."  The book has no references to wicket, cricket or roundball.</p>
|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.  "W. Heywood, ed., <u>Autobiography of Adin Ballou, 1803-1890</u> (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," <u>Base Ball</u>, Volume 2, number 1 (Spring 2008), page 30.  The autobiography was accessed 11/15/2008 via Google Books search for "adin ballou."  The book has no references to wicket, cricket or roundball.</p>
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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. "W. Heywood, ed., Autobiography of Adin Ballou, 1803-1890 (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 Google Books search for "adin ballou." The book has no references to wicket, cricket or roundball.

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