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|Headline=Chapbook of Games:  "Now a Knock, and Swift it Flies"
|Headline=Chapbook of Games:  "Now a Knock, and Swift it Flies"
|Year=1840
|Year=1840
|Is in main chronology=yes
|Salience=2
|Text=<p><u>The Village Green; or, Sports of Youth</u> [New Haven, S. Babcock], per David Block, <u>Baseball Before We Knew It</u>, page 204.  Yes, another chapbook comes out of New Haven, and yes, it again uses the much-traveled woodcut from <u>Mary's Book of Sports</u> from 1832, but now we have some verbal action:  "Now a knock, and swift it flies/O'er the plain the troop are flying,/ Joy is sparkling in their eyes,/ As to catch it all are trying."</p>
|Text=<p><u>The Village Green; or, Sports of Youth</u> [New Haven, S. Babcock], per David Block, <u>Baseball Before We Knew It</u>, page 204.  Yes, another chapbook comes out of New Haven, and yes, it again uses the much-traveled woodcut from <u>Mary's Book of Sports</u> from 1832, but now we have some verbal action:  "Now a knock, and swift it flies/O'er the plain the troop are flying,/ Joy is sparkling in their eyes,/ As to catch it all are trying."</p>
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The Village Green; or, Sports of Youth [New Haven, S. Babcock], per David Block, Baseball Before We Knew It, page 204. Yes, another chapbook comes out of New Haven, and yes, it again uses the much-traveled woodcut from Mary's Book of Sports from 1832, but now we have some verbal action: "Now a knock, and swift it flies/O'er the plain the troop are flying,/ Joy is sparkling in their eyes,/ As to catch it all are trying."

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