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|Headline=MA Man Recalls Games of Ball in Streets, with Wickets
|Headline=Sports at Exeter Academy include "Old-Fashioned 'Bat and Ball' . . . and Football"
|Year=1800
|Year=1800
|Year Suffix=c
|Year Suffix=c
|Is in main chronology=yes
|Is in main chronology=yes
|Location=New England
|Text=<p>Cunningham, Frank H., <u>Familiar Sketches of the Phillips Exeter Academy and Surroundings</u> [James R. Osgood and Company, Boston, 1883], p. 281. Per Thomas L. Altherr, "A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball," reprinted in David Block, <u>Baseball Before We Knew It,</u> ref # 76.</p>
|Game=Wicket
|Tags=Holidays
|Text=<p>"The sports and entertainments were very simple.  Running about the village street, hither and thither, without much aim . . . . games of ball, not base-ball, as is now [c1857] the fashion, yet with wickets - this was about all, except that at the end there was always horse-racing [p.19]. ..But as to sports and entertainments in general, there were more of them in those days than now.  We had more holidays, more games in the street, of ball-playing, of quoits, of running, leaping, and wrestling. [p.21]"</p>
<p>Mary E. Dewey, ed., <u>Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey, D.D.</u> (Roberts Brothers, Boston, 1883), pages 19 and 21. Per Thomas L. Altherr, "Chucking the Old Apple: Recent Discoveries of Pre-1840 North American Ball Games," <u>Base Ball</u>, Volume 2, number 1 (Spring 2008), page 38.  Accessed 11/16/2008 via Google Books search for "'letters of orville.'"  Orville Dewey was born in Sheffield MA in 1794 and grew up there.  Sheffield is in the SW corner of MA, about 45 miles NE of Hartford Connecticut.  <b>Note:</b> [1] the "game of ball" may have been wicket. [2] More holidays in 1800 than in 1857?</p>
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Cunningham, Frank H., Familiar Sketches of the Phillips Exeter Academy and Surroundings [James R. Osgood and Company, Boston, 1883], p. 281. Per Thomas L. Altherr, "A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball," reprinted in David Block, Baseball Before We Knew It, ref # 76.

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