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|Year=1849 | |||
|Year Number=11 | |||
|Headline=Character in Fictional Autobiography Played Cricket, Base-Ball | |Headline=Character in Fictional Autobiography Played Cricket, Base-Ball | ||
| | |Salience=2 | ||
| | |Tags=Fiction, Holidays, | ||
|Game=Cricket | |Game=Cricket | ||
|Text=<p>"On fourths of July, training days and other occasions, young men from the country around, at a distance of fifteen or twenty miles, would come for the purpose of competing for the championship of these contests, in which, in which, as the leader of the school, I soon became conspicuous. Was there a game at cricket or base-ball to be played, my name headed the list of the athletae." </p> | |||
|Text=<p>"On fourths of July, training days and other occasions, young men from the country around, at a distance of fifteen or twenty miles, would come for the purpose of competing for the championship of these contests, in which, in which, as the leader of the school, I soon became conspicuous. | <p>The following page has an isolated reference to the ball grounds at the school. Mayo was from upstate NY. The fifth edition [1850] of <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Kaloolah</span> is available via Google Books, and was accessed on 10/24/2008; the ballplaying references in this edition are on pages 20 and 21.</p> | ||
|Sources=<p>W.S. Mayo, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Kaloolah, or Journeying to the Djebel Kumri. An Autobiography</span> (George P. Putnam, New York, 1849), page 20.</p> | |||
|Comment=<p>Posting to 19CBB by Richard Hershberger, 1/24/2008. Richard considers this the first appearance of base-ball in American fiction, as the games in #1837.2 and #1838.4 above are not cited as base ball and could be another type of game.</p> | |||
|Submitted by=Richard Hershberger | |||
|Submission Note=1/24/2008 posting on 19CBB | |||
|Reviewed=Yes | |||
|Has Supplemental Text=No | |||
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| Tags | Fiction, HolidaysFiction, Holidays |
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| Text | "On fourths of July, training days and other occasions, young men from the country around, at a distance of fifteen or twenty miles, would come for the purpose of competing for the championship of these contests, in which, in which, as the leader of the school, I soon became conspicuous. Was there a game at cricket or base-ball to be played, my name headed the list of the athletae." The following page has an isolated reference to the ball grounds at the school. Mayo was from upstate NY. The fifth edition [1850] of Kaloolah is available via Google Books, and was accessed on 10/24/2008; the ballplaying references in this edition are on pages 20 and 21. |
| Sources | W.S. Mayo, Kaloolah, or Journeying to the Djebel Kumri. An Autobiography (George P. Putnam, New York, 1849), page 20. |
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| Comment | Posting to 19CBB by Richard Hershberger, 1/24/2008. Richard considers this the first appearance of base-ball in American fiction, as the games in #1837.2 and #1838.4 above are not cited as base ball and could be another type of game. Edit with form to add a comment |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Submission Note | 1/24/2008 posting on 19CBB |
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1849.11 Character in Fictional Autobiography Played Cricket, Base-Ball"
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