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"The Popular Game" For Boys in NY State: Old Cat

Salience Noteworthy
Location New York State
Game Old-Cat Games
Age of Players Juvenile
Text

"The popular game among the boys previously."

 

Sources

M. F. Roberts, A Narrative History of Remsen, New York (private printing, 1914)., page 220.  Described in Originals, volume 4, number 10 (October, 2011), page 2.

Reportedly the author writes of Remsen ballplaying before the Civil War.  Remsen, a town in Central New York,  is about 20 miles N of Utica NY and about 60 miles E of Syracuse and, if you must know, about 60 miles NW of Cooperstown.     Its current population is about 1,900. 

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