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Watching Wicket Ball in Buffalo NY
| Salience | Noteworthy |
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| Tags | EquipmentEquipment |
| Location | Western New YorkWestern New York |
| City/State/Country: | Buffalo, NY, United States |
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| Game | WicketWicket |
| Immediacy of Report | Retrospective |
| Age of Players | YouthYouth |
| Holiday | Sabbath |
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| Text | "[The Indians] would lounge on the steps of the 'Old First Church,' where they could look at our young men playing wicket ball in front of the church (no fences there then):, and this was a favorite ball ground." " . . . the boys, who must always have their fun, did not always 'Remember the Sabbath day and keep it holy,' but would make a holiday of it by a vigorous game of ball, in some secluded spot in the suburbs of he town . . . "
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| Sources | Samuel M. Welch, Home History: Recollections of Buffalo During the Decade from 1830 to 1840, or Fifty Years Since [P. Paul and bro., Buffalo, 1890], pages 112 and 220. Submitted by John Thorn 9/13/2006. Also see Thomas L. Altherr, "Chucking the Old Apple: Recent Discoveries of Pre-1840 North American Ball Games," Base Ball, Volume 2, number 1 (Spring 2008), page 38. |
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1830s.12 Watching Wicket Ball in Buffalo NY"
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