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|Headline=New England rules game in camp
|Headline=New England rules game in camp
|Salience=2
|Salience=2
|Tags=Civil War, Military,
|Tags=Civil War, Military
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|Coordinates=38.3240166, -77.4683177
|State=VA
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|Sources=<p>The Boston Traveler, June 2, 1863</p>
|Sources=<p>The Boston Traveler, June 2, 1863</p>
|Submitted by=Bruce Allardice
|Submitted by=Bruce Allardice
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The Boston Traveler, June 2, 1863, prints a letter from Camp Gore, VA, March 22, 1863: "About the middle of the month, eleven men from our regiment played a match game of base ball, according to the rules of the New England Association of Base Ball Players, with eleven members of the 18th Mass. regiment." The 5 hour match was won by the 18th by "three tallies."

Camp Gore was at Falmouth.

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The Boston Traveler, June 2, 1863

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