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Boys Play Bat Ball in New Orleans

Salience Noteworthy
City/State/Country: New Orleans, LA, United States
Game Bat-Ball
Immediacy of Report Contemporary
Age of Players Juvenile
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A traveler to New Orleans views, on Sunday, "the boys were playing bat ball on a green or park opposite [the old Cathedral]."

The space is presumably the modern Jackson Square.

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Indianapolis Journal, June 22, 1833

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