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Oxfordshire Churchman Urges Base-Ball Fields for Girls
| Salience | Noteworthy |
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| Tags | English Base Ball, FemalesEnglish Base Ball, Females |
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| City/State/Country: | Watlngton, Oxfordshire, England |
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| Age of Players | YouthYouth |
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| Text | Base-ball, as an outdoor means of recreation for girls, was praised by an English churchwarden in a manuscript history of the Oxfordshire village of Watlington. The writer, John Badcock, made his point despite having it almost swallowed within an unusually convoluted sentence: “It is contrary to reason and common sense to expect that the most sober-minded, if wholly restrained from a game of cricket, or some other amusement--& the other sex from base-ball, or some recreation peculiar to themselves, & exclusively their own, would fill up every leisure hour of a fine summer's evening better, or perhaps so well, in any other way.” Mr. Badcock went on to argue that the lord of the manor, or some other landowner, should take a section of otherwise unusable land and create appropriate playing fields for boys and girls."
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| Sources | An Historical & Descriptive Account of Watlington, Oxfordshire, by John Badcock (1816), handwritten manuscript in the collection of the Oxfordshire History Centre, PAR279/9/MS/1, (former reference: MSS.D.D.Par.Wat-lington c.11) |
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| Submitted by | David Block |
| Submission Note | Email of 9/16/2020 |
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1816.12 Oxfordshire Churchman Urges Base-Ball Fields for Girls"
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