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|Year=1847
|Year Number=4
|Headline=Book of Children's Tales Includes Recycled Illustrations of Ballplaying
|Headline=Book of Children's Tales Includes Recycled Illustrations of Ballplaying
|Year=1847
|Salience=2
|Salience=2
|Text=<p>Barbauld, Anna Leticia, <u>Charles' Journey to France and Other Tales</u> [Worcester MA, E. Livermore, 1847], per David Block, <u>Baseball Before We Knew It</u>, page 209. This book of children's tales has a chapter called "The Ball Players, with "a strange poem celebrating generic ball play," - evidently meant to include the tennis-like game of fives- and Block adds that "[i]llustrating the poem are several woodcuts borrowed from earlier children's books."</p>
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|Text=<p>Barbauld, Anna Leticia, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Charles' Journey to France and Other Tales</span> [Worcester MA, E. Livermore, 1847], per David Block, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Baseball Before We Knew It</span>, page 209. This book of children's tales has a chapter called "The Ball Players, with "a strange poem celebrating generic ball play," - evidently meant to include the tennis-like game of fives- and Block adds that "[i]llustrating the poem are several woodcuts borrowed from earlier children's books."</p>
|Reviewed=Yes
|Reviewed=Yes
|Year Number=4
|Has Supplemental Text=No
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Barbauld, Anna Leticia, Charles' Journey to France and Other Tales [Worcester MA, E. Livermore, 1847], per David Block, Baseball Before We Knew It, page 209. This book of children's tales has a chapter called "The Ball Players, with "a strange poem celebrating generic ball play," - evidently meant to include the tennis-like game of fives- and Block adds that "[i]llustrating the poem are several woodcuts borrowed from earlier children's books."

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