Early baseball in Arkansas/Predecessor Game 1

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Location	Arkansas
Year	1841
State	AR
Country	US
Name of game	Ball
Found by	Caleb Hardwick

A German scholar and traveler wrote of an Arkansas forest school between Danville and Perryville:

"We passed a school as we went along—one of the usual log houses, but with a plank inserted between two of the logs to serve for a desk. The more distant scholars come on horseback and tie their horses to the fence during school hours. Of course they bring their dinners with them. These forest schools seldom pretend to teach more than reading, writing, and arithmetic; if they attempt geography, it is confined to that of the United States. It was just noon as we passed; at this hour master and scholars make it a rule to play at ball so that they may return with greater zeal to their spelling."

Sources

History of education in Arkansas By Josiah Hazen Shinn, 1910