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</table>Larryhttps://protoball.org/index.php?title=1855.45&diff=2050270&oldid=prevLarry: Created page with "{{Chronology Entry |Year=1855 |Year Number=45 |Headline=Unitarians' Christian Register Defends Base Ball on Fast Day |Salience=2 |Tags=Newspaper Coverage, Pre-modern Rules, |..."2020-05-06T16:05:05Z<p>Created page with "{{Chronology Entry |Year=1855 |Year Number=45 |Headline=Unitarians' Christian Register Defends Base Ball on Fast Day |Salience=2 |Tags=Newspaper Coverage, Pre-modern Rules, |..."</p>
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|Year=1855<br />
|Year Number=45<br />
|Headline=Unitarians' Christian Register Defends Base Ball on Fast Day<br />
|Salience=2<br />
|Tags=Newspaper Coverage, Pre-modern Rules, <br />
|Country=United States<br />
|Coordinates=42.3600825, -71.0588801<br />
|City=Boston<br />
|Game=Base Ball, Foot Ball<br />
|Immediacy of Report=Contemporary<br />
|Holiday=Fast Day<br />
|Text=<p>The Boston-based&nbsp;<em>Christian Register, "Devoted to Unitarian Christianity,"&nbsp;</em>appeared to respond to critics of Fast Day ballplaying in an unsigned article titled "Why Give It Up?"</p><br />
<p>"A game of ball out-doors on Fast Day will not do those who play so much harm as the game of poker that they will play in-doors tomorrow . . . ."</p><br />
<p>"Fast Day -- by some collusion of the Governor with the prophets of the weather, is almost always pleasant.&nbsp; It is apt to be the first day that savors of&nbsp; Spring. And so, -- even serious men stray into their gardens before sunset, -- look at the peach buds, and show children where the corn is to be, and where the peas. . . . And those who are not serious, -- are hoping to murder one or two robins, or using the dried grass for the first game, so often the last, of base ball or foot ball."last,&nbsp;</p><br />
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|Sources=<p><em>Christian Register,</em>&nbsp;Boston, March 31, 1855</p><br />
|Comment=<p>We do not know the circulation of this 1855 paper beyond Boston.&nbsp; (We do know that it covered a Worcester MA story at entry [[1849.6]])</p><br />
<p>The reference to players playing poker suggests that they were adults.</p><br />
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|Query=<p>Was the writer saying, in "so often the last" game, that base ball and/or foot ball was not played much after Fast Day?</p><br />
<p>Do we know what Boston-area foot ball like in 1855?</p><br />
|Submitted by=Donna Halper<br />
|Submission Note=Email of 5/3/2020.<br />
|Reviewed=Yes<br />
|Has Supplemental Text=No<br />
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