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New Marlboro Match Base Ball Co. Goes Hybrid

Salience Peripheral
Tags Interscholastic
Location Massachusetts
City/State/Country: New Marlborough, MA, United States
Game Base Ball
Immediacy of Report Contemporary
Age of Players Youth
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Apparently not liking either the New York Rules or Massachusetts Game Rules, the two formal sets available to them, the boys of the South Berkshire Institute, a prep school in New Marlborough, MA, drew up a hybrid game. Their version is rare in that its documentation has survived.

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Richard Hershberger, "The 'New Marlboro Match Base Ball Co.' of 1863", in Base Ball (McFarland, Spring 2010), p. 87. The documents, part of an autograph album, are part of a private collection.

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Submitted by Bob Tholkes
Submission Note 3/11/2014



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