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• Town Ball  + (<p>Ideas of how to understand the te … <p>Ideas of how to understand the term “Town Ball” are still evolving. In most common usage, the term seems to have been used generically to denote, in substantially later years, any of a variety of games that preceded the New York game in a particular area. [[Philadelphia Town Ball]], however, used the term to denote a current game before the New York game emerged, and had generally standard rules (see “[[Philadelphia Town Ball]],” entry, above). In Cincinnati another form evolved, and there are many recollections of town ball from the South and mid-West. Town ball is not infrequently confused with the [[Massachusetts Game]], but the term is in fact very rarely found in MA sources in the 19^th century.</p></br><p>For more information on Town Ball, see Chronology entry [[1831.1]] and [[Philadelphia Town Ball]] in the Protoball Glossary of Games.</p></br><p> </p>e Protoball Glossary of Games.</p> <p> </p>)

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