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School Reader has Description of Bat and Ball

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Text	Another Sanders reader (see entries above for 1840, 1841, 1846), this one with an illustration of four boys playing a ball game at recess. A drawing is titled "Boys Playing at Bat and Ball" Oddly enough, two of the four bays seem to be carrying bats. One appears to have hit the ball toward a boy in the foreground, and a second boy stands near to him, with a bat in hand, watching him prepare to catch the ball. "[H]e will catch the ball when it comes down. Then it will be his turn to take the bat and knock the ball." No bases or wickets are apparent in the drawing. No pitching or baserunning is mentioned.
Sources	Sanders, Charles W., The School Reader; First Book [Newbergh, Chicago, Philadelphia, New York, assorted pub'rs], per David Block, Baseball Before We Knew It, page 215.
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