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{{Chronology Entry | {{Chronology Entry | ||
|Year=1845 | |||
|Year Number=8 | |||
|Headline=Magazine Article Likens Ladies' Gait to Ballplayers' Screw Ball | |Headline=Magazine Article Likens Ladies' Gait to Ballplayers' Screw Ball | ||
|Salience=2 | |Salience=2 | ||
|Location=NY State, | |||
|Country=United States | |||
|State=NY | |||
|Game=Base Ball | |Game=Base Ball | ||
|Text=<p>Author[?], "The New Philosophy," < | |Immediacy of Report=Contemporary | ||
|Age of Players=Unknown | |||
|Text=<p>Author[?], "The New Philosophy," <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Knickerbocker</span>, volume 26, November 1845 [New York], per David Block, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Baseball Before We Knew It</span>, page 207 - 208. The author, unimpressed at a new tightly-laced clothing fashion that affects how women walk, says their walking "motion very much resembles that of one who, in playing 'base,' screws his ball, and the expression is among boys; or of a man rolling what is known among the players of ten pins as a 'screw ball.'" <strong>Note:</strong> presumably the baseball reference is to a pitcher's attempt to make the ball curve.</p> | |||
|Comment=<p>Important in its confirmation that pitchers in this baseball predecessor game were trying to retire batters, not acting as "feeders"</p> | |||
|Reviewed=Yes | |Reviewed=Yes | ||
| | |Has Supplemental Text=No | ||
|Coordinates=40.7127837, -74.0059413 | |||
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| Text | Author[?], "The New Philosophy," The Knickerbocker, volume 26, November 1845 [New York], per David Block, Baseball Before We Knew It, page 207 - 208. The author, unimpressed at a new tightly-laced clothing fashion that affects how women walk, says their walking "motion very much resembles that of one who, in playing 'base,' screws his ball, and the expression is among boys; or of a man rolling what is known among the players of ten pins as a 'screw ball.'" Note: presumably the baseball reference is to a pitcher's attempt to make the ball curve. |
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