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|Pagetext=Noah Brookes, Lem: A New England Village Boy: His Adventures and his Mishaps (Scribner's Sons, New York, 1901).  Accessed 11/15/2008 via Google Books search "Lem boy." Lem may be fiction's only round-ball hero.
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Noah Brookes, Lem: A New England Village Boy: His Adventures and his Mishaps (Scribner’s Sons, New York, 1901).  Accessed 11/15/2008 via Google Books search “Lem boy.” Lem may be fiction’s only round-ball hero.
   
   
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On pages 93-97, the novel lays out the game that was played by Lem [born 1830] and his playmates, which seems to follow the customs of the Massachusetts game, but without stakes as bases. The passage includes a field diagram, some terminology ["the bases . . . were four in number, and were called �gools,' a word which probably came from �goals.'"], and ballmaking technique.  Lem is, alas, sidelined for the season when he is plugged "in the hollow of the leg" while gool-running [Page 97]  Other references:
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On pages 93-97, the novel lays out the game that was played by Lem [born 1830] and his playmates, which seems to follow the customs of the Massachusetts game, but without stakes as bases. The passage includes a field diagram, some terminology [“the bases . . . were four in number, and were called ‘gools,’ a word which probably came from ‘goals.’”], and ballmaking technique.  Lem is, alas, sidelined for the season when he is plugged “in the hollow of the leg” while gool-running [Page 97]  Other references:
   
   
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On spring, pp 92-93:  "Ball-playing began early in the spring; [p92/93] it was the first of the summer games to come out.
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On spring, pp 92-93:  “Ball-playing began early in the spring; [p92/93] it was the first of the summer games to come out.
   
   
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On Fast Day, p. 93:  "I am afraid that Lem's only notion of Fast Day was that that was the long-expected day when, for the first time that year, a game of ball was played on the Common."
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On Fast Day, p. 93:  “I am afraid that Lem’s only notion of Fast Day was that that was the long-expected day when, for the first time that year, a game of ball was played on the Common.”
   
   
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On the pleasant effects of a change in the path of the Gulf Stream, pp. 228-229: "no slushy streets, and above all, no cold barns to go into to feed turnips to the cold cows!  A land where top-time, kite-[p228/229] time, and round-ball-time would always be in season.  Think of it!"
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On the pleasant effects of a change in the path of the Gulf Stream, pp. 228-229: “no slushy streets, and above all, no cold barns to go into to feed turnips to the cold cows!  A land where top-time, kite-[p228/229] time, and round-ball-time would always be in season.  Think of it!”
   
   
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On making teams for simulating Revolutionary War tussles, p. 107: "We can't all be Americans; and we have agreed to choose sides, as we do in round ball."
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On making teams for simulating Revolutionary War tussles, p. 107: “We can’t all be Americans; and we have agreed to choose sides, as we do in round ball.”
   
   
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Note: we welcome comment on the authenticity of Brooks' depiction of ballplaying in the 1840s,
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Note: we welcome comment on the authenticity of Brooks’ depiction of ballplaying in the 1840s,
   
   
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1840s.32 – Ballplaying by Slaves is Part of a Normal Plantation Sunday in GA
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1840s.32 – Ballplaying by Slaves is Part of a Normal Plantation Sunday in GA
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