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- 1830s.22 + (<p>You may think of Thomas Wentworth … <p>You may think of Thomas Wentworth Higginson [b. 1823] as a noted abolitionist, or as the mentor of Emily Dickinson, but he was also a ballplayer and sporting advocate [see also #1858.17]. Higginson's autobiography includes several glimpses of MA ballplaying:</p></br><p>- at ten he knew many Harvard students - "their nicknames, their games, their individual haunts, we watched them at football and cricket [page 40]"</p></br><p>- at his Cambridge school "there was perpetual playing of ball and fascinating running games [page 20]".</p></br><p>- he and his friends "played baseball and football, and a modified cricket, and on Saturdays made our way to the tenpin alleys [page 36]".</p></br><p>- once enrolled at Harvard College [Class of 1841] himself, he used "the heavy three-cornered bats and large balls of the game we called cricket [page 60]." <strong>Note:</strong> sounds a bit like wicket?</p></br><p>- in his early thirties he was president of a cricket club [and a skating club and a gymnastics club] in Worcester MA. [Pages 194-195]</p></br><p>See also #[[1858.17]]. </p>[[1858.17]]. </p>)