1831.5

"Cricket, Base, and Long Ball" Played in Worcester MA on Election Day

Salience	Noteworthy
Tags	HolidaysHolidays
Location
City/State/Country:	Worcester, MA, United States
Modern Address
Game	Cricket, Base, Long BallCricket, Base, Long Ball
Immediacy of Report
Age of Players	JuvenileJuvenile
Holiday	Election Day
Notables
Text	When the Massachusetts Legislature announced that Election Day would be moved from May to January, a protest was lodged in a newspaper, recalling: ". . then amusements were planned; then were hunting matches and fishing parties made; then was the quoit hurled in the air; then were cricket, base, and long-ball played; then were sports of every kind, appropriate to the season, sought after and enjoyed with particular zest."
Sources	'Lection Day, National Aegis (Worcester Massachusetts), June 15, 1831, page 1, as cited in David Block, Polish Workers Play Ball at Jamestown, Virginia, Base Ball, volume 5, number 2 (Spring 2011), page 8. (The National Aegis credits the New York Constellation with the article, but David Block notes that the subject is clearly the lot of Massachusetts children not those in New York City.)
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Submitted by	David Block
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