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Game	Sky-Ball
Game Family	Fungo Fungo
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Description	A game banned, along with cat-ball, in Norwich CT in 1832. A 1890 source describes Sky-Ball as a fungo game in which a player who can catch the hit ball qualifies to hit the next fungo.
Sources	Norwich Courier, Volume 11, issue 8 (May 16, 1832), page 1. H. Philpott, “A Little Boys’ Game with a Ball,” The Popular Science Monthly, Volume 37, Number 5 (September 1890) page 654.
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-|Description=A game banned, along with cat-ball, in Norwich CT in 1832[181].  A 1890 source[182] describes Sky-Ball as a fungo game in which a player who can catch the hit ball qualifies to hit the next fungo.
+|Description=<p>A game banned, along with cat-ball, in Norwich CT in 1832. A 1890 source describes Sky-Ball as a fungo game in which a player who can catch the hit ball qualifies to hit the next fungo.</p>
+|Sources=<p><em>Norwich Courier</em><span>, Volume 11, issue 8&nbsp;</span>(May 16, 1832)<span>, page 1.</span></p>
+<p><span><span>H. Philpott, &ldquo;A Little Boys&rsquo; Game with a Ball,&rdquo;&nbsp;</span><em>The Popular Science Monthly</em><span>, Volume 37, Number 5 (September 1890) page 654.</span></span></p>
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