The Ball (35 page)

Illustration Credits

25
Courtesy of John Fox.

38
Athenian Black-figure Lekythos, AN1890.27. Courtesy of the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, UK.

40
Tuthmosis III playing ball, Temple of Hatshepsut, Deir e-Bahri. Courtesy of Wolfgang Decker.

62
“La Soule en Basse Normandie,” M.J.L. de Condé, published February 28, 1852, in weekly magazine
L'Illustration
.

66
“Throw Up of the Ba', New Year's Day, 2010.” Courtesy of Joe Fox.

70
The Kirkwall Ba'. Wikimedia Commons.

87
Courtesy of John Fox.

89
Garsault, François-Alexandre de. L'art du paumier-raquetier et de la paume.
Descriptions des arts et métiers, faites ou approuvées par messieurs de l'Académie royale des sciences
, Paris, 1767. Courtesy of William D. Haggard III Tennis Collection, Irvin Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, University of South Carolina Libraries.

94-5
Jeu de paume
in a royal Paris court, 1632. From Baron Morys George Lyndhurst Bruce Aberdare,
Story of Tennis
, 1959. Courtesy of William D. Haggard III Tennis Collection, Irvin Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, University of South Carolina Libraries. Photo of
jeu de paume
at Fontainebleau, 2009, courtesy of John Fox.

119
The ancient Maya ball court at Cobá, Mexico. Wikimedia Commons 27527.

123
Ulama player holding ball. Copyright © Janet Jarman (www.janetjarman.com).

125
Ulama player striking ball. Copyright © Janet Jarman (www.janetjarman.com).

130-1
Late Classic Maya polychrome vase, St. Louis Art Museum (K5435). Copyright © Justin Kerr.

147
“Ball Play of the Choctaw—Ball Up, 1846-50,” George Catlin (1796–1872). Courtesy of Smithsonian American Art Museum/Art Resource, NY.

153
Onondaga Lacrosse Team, ca. 1902. Courtesy of Onondaga Historical Association, NY.

165
Photograph of Alf Jacques. Courtesy of
The Post Standard
/ John Berry.

181
Leaves from
The Ghistelles Calendar
, Flemish, ca. 1301, parchment with ink and paint. Copyright © The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore.

183
“A Little Pretty Pocket-Book—The little k Play.” Courtesy of Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.

198
Vintage baseball in Washington, D.C. Courtesy of John Fox.

235
Ada, Ohio, high school football stadium. Courtesy of John Fox.

239
Footballs ready to be “turned” at the Wilson Football Factory in Ada, Ohio. Courtesy of John Fox.

252
“Out of the Game,” Harper's Weekly, 1891. From Dean Hill,
Football Thru the Years
. New York: Gridiron Publishing.

258
“Football of the Future,” Harper's Weekly, November, 1889. From Dean Hill,
Football Thru the Years
. New York: Gridiron Publishing.

273
Spalding basketball advertisement, 1894. Courtesy of Springfield College, Babson Library, Archives and Special Collections.

276
Early basketball action, ca. 1910. Courtesy of Springfield College, Babson Library, Archives and Special Collections.

297
Photograph of Bilqis Abdul-Qaadir. Copyright © Getty Images.

305
“Ball about to be tossed up at centre,” with Senda Berenson officiating at a Smith College basketball game, 1903. From the 1903 edition of
Basket Ball for Women
. Courtesy of Smith College Archives.

Index

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Page numbers in
italics
refer to illustrations.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem, 290, 310

Abdul-Qaadir, Bilqis “Qisi,” 295–301,
297
, 307, 314–16, 320

Abdul-Qaadir, Yusuf, 298

Abrams, Marshall, 160

Abrams, Roger, 263–64

Acaxee, 134–35

Ackerman, Diane, 28

Ada, Ohio, 234–35,
235
, 237, 238

Adams, Daniel “Doc,” 193–94, 196

Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The
(Twain), 14

agriculture, 72

Aguilar, Manuel, 135

akraurak
, 31–32

Alexander the Great, 44

Amateur Athletic Union (AAU), 289, 296, 298

American Basketball League, 310

American exceptionalism, 228–29

“American game of Base Ball, The” (Spalding), 210

American League of Professional Football Clubs, 231

American Revolution, 148

America's National Game
(Spalding), 204

Anacostia Park, 187–90

Anthony, Susan B., 306

aporrhaxis
, 43–44

Archibald, Nate “Tiny,” 290

Armstrong, Andrea, 299

Artest, Ron, 11

Arthur, King, 60–61

Ashe, Arthur, 4

Auerbach, Red, 309

Austen, Jane, 303

Australia, 230

Australian Aborigines, 30–31, 230

Aztecs, 116, 120, 123, 124, 126, 128, 129, 131, 135, 138, 232, 264–65, 271, 325

ba' (ball), 52, 57–59,
66

ba' (game), 52,
70
, 72–73, 230, 326

Kirkwall, 48–59, 64–74, 76–79, 223, 320

women's playing of, 67

Baker, William, 76

Ball Four
(Bouton), 215

balls, 9–10, 26–27, 232

ba', 52, 57–59,
66

baseball, 192–94, 199–200, 207

basketball, 269–70,
273
, 274–76

dolphins and, 26

football, 232–33, 237–41,
239
, 259, 275

lacrosse, 160, 162, 173

pelota de viento
, 113, 114

rubber, 114–18, 124, 138–40, 142, 193, 232, 233, 326–27

soccer, 238

tennis, 85–90,
87
,
89
, 106, 232

ulama
, 114–18,
123
, 124, 138–40

Baltimore Colts, 236

Barry, Marion, 187–88

Barzun, Jacques, 178

baseball, 171, 174–215, 231, 320, 325

balls for, 192–94, 199–200, 207

bats for, 207

Brooklyn vs. New York series, 203–4

Chadwick and, 189, 192, 202–3, 209, 211

Civil War and, 197–98

clubs, 191–92, 194–96, 203

competition in, 201–2, 204

Doubleday and, 177–81, 210–13

drug use in, 187

early teams, 195–96

fire companies and, 195–96

first uses of word, 175, 182–84

football compared with, 216–17

foul vs. fair territory in, 200

gloves worn in, 190, 199–200, 207

longball and, 154, 180

oina and, 179–80

origins of, 176–77, 179–86, 209–13, 277–78

pitcher in, 189

professional, 204–5, 217–18

rivalries in, 201

rules for, 189, 196, 200–203, 215

Rutgers vs. Princeton game, 218

Spalding and, 204–10

ta kurt om el mahag
and, 180

vintage teams, 188–90, 196–200,
198
, 213–15

women's playing of, 303

World Series, 199, 207, 217

Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, 177, 179, 211, 212

Baseball Reliquary, 178, 187

basketball, 171, 231, 267–316,
276

Abdul-Qaadir and, 295–301,
297
, 307, 314–16, 320

balls for, 269–70,
273
, 274–76

baskets for, 272,
273

black teams, 309–12

as city game, 308–9

corruption in, 289

dribbling in, 274, 275–76

invention of, 267–71, 275–78, 280, 312–13

Jewish players in, 307–8

women's, 302–7,
305

Basketball Hall of Fame, 280

bat-and-ball games, 181–84,
181
, 186, 200–201

Baylor, Elgin, 308

Beacon Journal
, 209

Beers, William George, 155–57

Bekoff, Marc, 15–16, 26

Berbers, 180

Berenson, Senda, 302–5,
305

Bergen County Gazette
, 221

Bernstein, Mark, 246, 253

Berua, Dogaka, 325–28

Best, Travis, 288

Bird, Larry, 281

Blanchard, Kendall, 31

Blanchard, Thomas, 279

Blatter, Sepp, 176

Block, David, 180, 186, 200, 210

Boleyn, Anne, 105

Bolivia, 326

bonobo chimpanzees, 27–28

Book of the Courtier, The
(Castiglione), 104

Booth, Shannon, 157–59, 160, 163

Boston Herald
, 250

Boston Red Sox, 187, 205, 206, 317

Bouton, Jim, 215

Brady, James, 121–23, 138

brain:

lateralization in, 33–35

size of, 22–23, 35

Brébeuf, Father Jean de, 144–45, 163

Brill, Karl, 257

Brine Company, 166

Britain:

baseball's origins in, 182–86, 209, 211

cricket in, 185–86, 205–6, 208

football in, 222–26, 322–24

football banned in, 74–76

football's origins in, 60–61

medieval tennis in, 102–3

public schools in, 223–25

Brittany, 62

Brooklyn Excelsiors, 186–87, 194, 204

Brown, Stuart, 14–15

Bucktooth, A. J., 170

Bucktooth, Brett, 149, 160, 169

Bucktooth, Drew, 169, 170

Bucktooth, Freeman, 149–50, 152–55, 160–61, 169

Bucktooth, Grant, 169

Bucktooth, Ross, 169

Bucktooth, Wade, 170

Burchardt, Gordon, 14

Burns, Ken, 178

buzkashi
, 32–33

Caesarius, 80–81

Caillois, Roger, 14

Calendar of the Ghistelles Hours
,
181
, 182

Calvin, William, 33–36

Cambridge University, 225

Cameron, James, 150

Camp, Alice, 246

Camp, Walter, 228, 231, 232, 241–49, 254, 255, 257, 259, 260, 307

Camus, Albert, 283

Canada, 31

football in, 230–31

lacrosse in,
see
lacrosse

Canadian Football Union, 231

Canseco, Jose, 187

Cartwright, Alexander Joy, 190–91

Castiglione, Baldassare, 104

“cat” games, 184

Catherwood, Frederick, 271

Catholicism, 81, 145

Catlin, George,
147
, 148

Cayuga, 151

Central America, 7, 114–15

Chadwick, Henry, 189, 192, 202–3, 209, 211

Chamberlain, Wilt, 290, 308

Charles V, King, 114, 128

Chase, William R., 276

Château de Fontainebleau, 83–84, 90–97, 100–102, 105

Cherokee, 144, 146, 162

Chesapeake and Potomac Base Ball Club, 188

Chesterton, G. K., 228

Chiapas, 118

Chicago Bears, 261

Chicago Bruins, 311

Chicago Cubs, 199

Chicago Excelsiors, 204

Chicago White Stockings, 206

Chichén Itzá, 133, 271

Chickasaw, 144

chimpanzees, 34

bonobo, 27–28

China, 59–60, 176

Chiquito, 326–27

Choctaw, 144, 162

Christianity, 286

Christmas, 63

Kirkwall Ba' on, 51–52, 53, 67, 79

chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), 261, 262

Cincinnati Red Stockings, 205, 218

Civil War, 174, 179, 188, 197–98, 210, 218, 279

Clark, Dwight, 236

Clinton, Hillary, 150

Cobá,
119
, 128–29, 131, 320

Codex Mendoza, 138

Columbia University, 226, 257

Columbus, Christopher, 113, 114, 277

Cook, Travis, 160

Cooper, James Fenimore, 177

Cooper, Tarzan, 310

Cooperstown, N.Y., 175, 177, 187, 210–11, 278

Copper Inuit, 31–32

Cornell University, 226

Cortés, Hernán, 126, 128

Coughlin, Tom, 266

Creek Indians, 144, 146, 162

Creighton, Jim, 204

cricket, 175, 180, 185–86, 205–6, 208, 325

cuju
, 59–60

David, Jacques-Louis, 107

Davis, Parke, 220, 221, 244

DC Classic, 188

Deland, Lorin, 249–50

Diaz del Castillo, Bernal, 126

Didrikson, Mildred “Babe,” 306

Diem, Carl, 14

dogs, 15–16

Dohrmann, George, 289

dolphins, 17–21, 22–26,
25
, 28–29, 318–19

Doonies, 52–58, 64–65, 68–70, 74, 77–79

Doubleday, Abner, 177–81, 210–13

Douglas, Smilin' Bob, 309–12

Drever, George, 54

Duck on the Rock, 270–71

Duerson, Dave, 261

Dunbar Community Center, 287–88, 289, 291

Durán, Fray Diego, 114, 124, 135

Durango, 138–39

Earhart, Amelia, 306

Easter, 63, 81–82

Ecuador, 317, 321–28

Edward, Prince, 85

Edward II, King, 74–75

Edward III, King, 75–76

Egypt, 36–41,
40
, 180, 232, 320

Elevating the Game
(George), 290

Eliot, Charles, 253, 254, 255

Ellis, Dock, Jr., 178

El Manatí, 118

El Quelite, 136

Elysian Fields, 174, 195

encephalization quotient (EQ), 22–23, 24

England,
see
Britain

English Football Association, 229

ephedrismos
, 37,
38
, 42

Epic of Gilgamesh
, 36–37

episkyros
, 43, 44

Erasmus, 93

Erving, Julius “Dr. J,” 288, 290

Essex Base Ball Club, 196–97

Eton College, 224–26, 227, 229, 242

Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), 11, 176

ferryloupers, 48–49, 53

Fisher, Donald, 146, 156, 159

Foer, Franklin, 229

follis
, 113

Fontainebleau, 83–84, 90–97, 100–102, 105

football, 48–79, 81, 171, 216–66, 269, 270, 322–25, 327–28

American exceptionalism and, 228–29

ba',
see
ba' (game)

balls for, 232–33, 237–41,
239
, 259, 275

baseball compared with, 216–17

block game in, 245

Boston Game, 226–27, 230

Camp and, 228, 231, 232, 241–49, 254, 255, 257, 259, 260

college, professionalism in, 257

downs in, 245

English, 222–26, 322–24

English monarchs' banning of, 74–76

fields for, 245–46, 248, 259

first appearance of word, 74, 222

flying wedge in, 249–50, 256

forward pass in, 258–59, 260

head and brain injuries from, 261–63, 266

management in, 241–42

mob, 61, 63, 105;
see also
ba' (game)

origins of, 59–61

pasuckuakohowog
, 143

protective gear for, 250–51, 260

rivalries in, 55–56

rules for, 226–27, 229–30, 232, 243–45, 248, 260

Rutgers vs. Princeton series, 218–22, 226, 246

scrimmage in, 243–45, 248

la soule
, 62–63,
62
, 73, 75, 230

specialized positions in, 246–47, 248

Super Bowl, 217, 236, 238, 261, 263

Thanksgiving and, 251, 320

timed game periods in, 246, 248

training in, 247–48, 251

violence and injuries in, 73–74, 248–57, 260–66, 283

women's playing of, 303

Football Facts and Figures: A Symposium of Expert Opinions on the Game's Place in American Athletics
, 254

Fort Joseph, 145

Fort Michilimackinac, 147–48

France, 60

jeu de paume
in, 81–97,
94
,
95
, 100–102, 105–11, 303

Revolution in, 107

la soule
in, 62–63,
62
, 73, 75, 230

Francis I, King, 105

Frazer, J. G., 63

French colonization, 144–46, 147

French National Open, 108–9

French Open, 82

Gaedel, Eddie, 178

Galen, 45–47

Gallico, Paul, 308

Galvin, “Pud,” 187

Garza, Sergio, 121, 122

Gay, Timothy, 261

Gee, Capus, 292–95

Geertz, Clifford, 264

George, Nelson, 290

Gilgamesh, 36–37

Gillmeister, Heinrich, 99

Gini, Corrado, 180

Goldblatt, David, 223, 230

Golden Bough, The
(Frazer), 63

Goldstein, Warren, 195, 201

golf, 176, 303

Gómez, Jesús, 139–40

Goodyear, Charles, 115, 233

Gottlieb, Eddie, 308

Gould, Stephen Jay, 212–13

Graves, Abner, 209–10, 211–12

Graves, Minnie, 212

Greece, ancient, 37, 41–44, 320

Green Bay Packers, 263

Guardian
, 229

Gulf World Marine Park, 17–21, 23–26, 28–29

Gulick, Luther, 267–69, 275–76, 285–86

Gummere, William, 219

Guttmann, Allen, 41

Hall, Donald, 174

Hall, Mark, 288

Hanson, Glen, 238–39