The woodwind instrument in the oboe family that has been in the Jongler family for 400 years, and that Arky calls the “spider stick.” THE JONGLER COR ANGLAIS Dvorak’s music for the cor anglais solo from the New World Symphony (1893); the melody for “Goin’ Home,” (1922), and Octavia Jongler’s favorite cor anglais solo. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCydQm83cJQ" target="_blank">Click here to listen on YouTube</a> - about 45 seconds in. DVORAK & HIS 9TH SYMPHONY LARGO The lay of the land for Arky and Danny during their many adventures (and ballgames) in the Civil War. RAPPAHANNOCK RIVER VALLEY, SPRING, 1863 As well as Union regiments playing each other and Confederate regiments playing each other, baseball games were played in prison camps between Yankee prisoners and their rebel guards. CIVIL WAR BASEBALL Arky and Danny’s POV looking across the Rappahannock River at Fredericksburg, circa 1863. FREDERICKSBURG, VA, 1863 Slightly larger and softer than a modern baseball, the 1860s lemon peel ball was named after the way you might peel fruit. LEMON PEEL BASEBALL (REPLICA) This baseball was “Picked up on The Battle Field” in 1862 in Shiloh, Tennessee by a black orderly for the Union Army, Giles Hellum. LEMON PEEL BASEBALL (AUTHENTIC) The bloody wall at the top of Marye’s Heights that rebels defended in the First (December, 1862) and Second (May, 1863) Battle of Fredericksburg. MARYE’S HEIGHTS, FREDERICKSBURG In 1863, 14-year-old Billy Cummings envisioned a “curveball” while throwing clam shells over the ocean. After 4 years of perfecting the pitch, in 1867, while playing pro baseball, he debuted the curveball, confounding batters, and changing pitching forever. “CANDY” CUMMINGS’ CURVEBALL Jim Creighton (with baseball) was a star pitcher and hitter who invented the speed pitch. He hit a homerun so hard he suffered a hernia that killed him in 1862 at the age of 21. JIM CREIGHTON & THE BROOKLYN EXCELSIORS Played on a square infield, Massachusetts baseball often had stakes instead of bases, overhand pitching, and allowed putting a runner out by hitting him with a thrown ball (a.k.a. plugging, soaking, killing). THE MASSACHUSETTES GAME Played on a diamond-shaped infield, New York (a.k.a. Knickerbocker) baseball had bases and underhand pitching. THE NEW YORK GAME
