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<p><span>P. Maigaard, “Battingball Games,” reprinted in Block, </span><em>Baseball Before We Knew It,</em><span> Appendix 6.</span><span> </span><span>See page 274.</span></p> +
<p><span>E. Perrin, et. Al., </span><em>One Hundred and Fifty Gymnastic Games</em><span> (G. H. Ellis, Boston, 1902), pages 59-63.</span></p> +
<p><span>Simon J. Bronner, "Concrete Folklore: Sidewalk Box Games," </span><em>Western Folklore</em><span> 36, no. 2 </span>(1977)<span>., page 172.</span></p>
<p><span>[B] Communication from Neal Seldman and Mark Schoenberg.</span></p>
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<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brannboll">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brannboll</a><span>.</span><span> </span><span>See also </span><a href="http://www.brennball.de/english/davidcurle.htm">http://www.brennball.de/english/davidcurle.htm</a><span>.</span><span> </span><span>[Accessed 10/09/09.]</span></p> +
<p><span>Paul G. Brewster, </span><em>American Nonsinging Games </em>(U Oklahoma Press, Norman OK, 1953)<span>, page 82-83.</span></p> +
<p><span>C. Bevis, “A Game of Bunt,” in G. Land, </span><em>Growing Up with Baseball</em><span> (UNebraska, 2004), pages 128-130.</span></p>
<p><span><span>T. Aamodt, “The Impossible Dream,” in G. Land, </span><em>Growing Up with Baseball</em><span> (UNebraska, 2004), pages 61-62.</span></span></p> +
<p><span>Gomme, </span><em>Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland, Volume 1</em><span>., page 53.</span></p> +
<p><span>Marty Appel, </span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Slide Kelly Slide</span><span> </span>(Scarecrow Press, 1999)<span>, page 9.</span></p> +
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<p><span>William Wells Newell, </span><em>Games and Songs of American Children</em><span> </span>(New York: Dover [1963 reprint], 1883)<span>., page 181.</span></p> +
<p><span>J. Jamieson, </span><em>Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language</em><span> (</span>Edinburgh<span>, 1825), page 187.</span></p> +
<p><span>Stewart Culin, "Street Games of Boys in </span>Brooklyn, N.Y.<span>," </span><em>Journal of American Folklore</em><span> 4, no. 14 </span>(1891)<span>. page 233.</span></p> +
<p><span>Brand, </span><em>Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain: The Origins of Our Vulgar and Provincial Customs, Ceremonies and Superstitions</em><span>., page 408.</span></p>
<p><span><span>J. Jamieson, </span><em>Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language</em><span> (</span>Edinburgh<span>, 1825), page 192. Jamiesson describes the game</span><span> </span><span>as being played in </span>County Fife<span> and perhaps elsewhere.</span></span></p>
<p>Alice Bertha Gomme, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland</span> (London, D. Nutt, 1894), pages 63-64.</p>
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<p><span>John Burnett, </span><em>Riot, Revelry and Rout: Sport in Lowland Scotland before 1860</em><span> </span>(East Linton, Scotland: Tuckwell Press, 2000)<span>., page 208.</span></p> +
<p>John Pastier, email of February 12, 2009.</p> +
<p><em>Boys’ Own Book: A Complete Encyclopedia of Athletic, Scientific, Outdoor and Indoor Sports<span style="text-decoration: underline;"> </span></em><span>(James Miller, Pub’r, New York, 1881), page 14.</span></p> +
<p><span>P. Maigaard, “Battingball Games,” reprinted in Block, </span><em>Baseball Before We Knew It,</em><span> Appendix 6.</span><span> </span><span>See page 263.</span></p> +
<p><span>See also Frederic Gomes Cassidy and Joan Houston Hall, </span><em>Dictionary of American Regional English</em><span> (Harvard University Press, 1996), page 604.</span><span> </span><span>The dictionary notes usage as “esp. VA” and gives four attested citations from 1889 to 1911, one of them a recollection from 1840, and another a 1911 dictionary associating the game with “the </span>Southern United States<span>.”</span></p>
<p><span>The Richmond <em>Whig</em>, Aug. 21, 1866 speaks of southerners 20 years prior playing bandy and chermany. The Richmond <em>Dispatch</em>, July 20, 1890 says kids played chermany 40 years ago (i.e., 1850). See also Altherr, "Southern Ball Games--Chermany, Round Cat, Etc." <em>Base Ball</em> (Spring 2011).</span></p> +
<p><span>Joseph Strutt, </span><em>The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England</em><span> </span>(1801)<span>, pages 104-105.</span></p>
<p><span>Hone, "The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England..." (1831) p. 105</span></p> +
<p><span>A. Morrison, “Uist Games,” </span><em>The Celtic Review</em><span>, Volume 4 (1907/1908), pages 361- 363.</span></p> +