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Ball Play Banned in New York NY
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| Text | "New York City outlawed ball play in the Park, Battery, and Bowling-Green in 1817." Thomas L. Altherr, "A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball," reprinted in David Block, Baseball Before We Knew It, page 245. Altherr's citation [page 320]: "A law relative to the Park, Batery, and Bowling-Green," in Laws and Ordinances Ordained and Established by the Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonality of the City of New York (T. and J. Swords, New York, 1817), page 118. |
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1817. Ball Play Banned in New York NY"
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