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Riddle Game Cites "Fourteen Boys at Bat and Ball"
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Text | The Gaping, Wide-mouthed, Waddling Frog [London], per David Block, Baseball Before We Knew It, page 187-188. This chapbook comprises a rhyme resembling the song "the Twelve Days of Christmas, and one verse includes "Fourteen Boys at Bat-and-Ball, Some Short and Some Tall." Block also reports that it contains an illustration of several boys playing trap-ball. |
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1817. Riddle Game Cites "Fourteen Boys at Bat and Ball""
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