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Newburyport MA Bans Cricket and Other Ball Games
| Salience | Noteworthy |
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| Tags | BansBans |
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| City/State/Country: | Newburyport, MA, United States |
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| Game | CricketCricket |
| Immediacy of Report | Contemporary |
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| Text | "Voted and ordered, that if any person shall play at foot-ball, cricket,or any other play or game with a ball or balls in any of the streets, lanes, or alleys of this town, . . ." a fine of 25 cents to one dollar was to be assessed. |
| Sources | Bye-Laws of Newburyport: Passed by the Town at Regular Meetings, and Approved by the Court of General Justice of the Peace for the County of Essex, Agreeably to a Law of this Commonwealth (Newburyport, 1797), p. 1. Per Thomas L. Altherr, "A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball," reprinted in David Block, Baseball before We Knew It, page 244 and ref #68. |
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1797.2 Newburyport MA Bans Cricket and Other Ball Games"
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