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- 1830s.15 + (<p>Writing over 50 years later, Samu … <p>Writing over 50 years later, Samuel Welch recalled:</p></br><p>"the fish I bought as a small boy at that time [1830-1840], at one cent per pound, mainly to get its noses for cores for our balls, to make them bound, to play the present National Game."</p></br><p>Welch also recalls the local enthusiasm for ballplaying: "the boys, who must 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 the town."</p></br><p> </p>ll, in some secluded spot in the suburbs of the town."</p> <p> </p>)