Date:  Mon, 15 Dec 1997 20:06:49 -0500
From:  Gerald Cohen <gcohen[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UMR.EDU>
Subject: Re: 'Mudville"

I have a sportswriter friend who swears that Mudville is actually Stockton,
California. I tend to trust him becuase he's one of those guys who knows
EVERYTHING about baseball, but he also suffer's from sportswriter's disease
(a.k.a. alcoholism).

--Dan Marcus

-----Original Message-----
From: Gerald Cohen <gcohen[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UMR.EDU>
To: ADS-L[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UGA.CC.UGA.EDU <ADS-L[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
Date: Sunday, December 14, 1997 12:00 PM
Subject: 'Mudville"

>  I recently received a request from _Boston Globe_ writer Robert Smith
>for help in locating the original town Mudville (assuming it existed) that
>inspired E.L. Thayer in his poem "Casey at the Bat." I replied that the
>town is almost certainly mythical, like "Dogpatch" of the Li'l Abner comic
>strip. I quoted from Paul Dickson's baseball dictionary and also referred
>Mr. Smith to onomastics scholar Leonard Ashley.
>
>  Mr. Smith replied: "I still hold hope of finding the mythical Mudville,
>so I would appreciate you querying your learned friends [at ads-l].  E.L.
>Thayer never pinpointed the place, but he grew up in central Massachusetts
>and some in these parts are convinced it is here."
>
> A definitive answer might be available from the Massachusetts Historical
>Society (I'll check the address tomorrow). Meanwhile, are any ads-l
>subscribers able to help out Mr. Smith by shedding any light at all on
>"Mudville?"
>
>--Gerald Cohen
>
>
>
>gcohen[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]umr.edu
>
>

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